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When I look at our everyday landscape, I see a cadence of shame built into objects we barely notice. The fridge door that hides the cost of living crisis on the empty shelf. The CV that turns a complex life into a pass/fail test. The tent pitched outside a disused shop, that broadcasts...

Early in his life, Walter Benjamin committed himself to a typically paradoxical idea: Die Freundschaft der fremden Freunde - the friendship of friends who remain strange to each other even in their closeness. Such strangeness in the midst of intimacy forms the heart of this foray into the lives...

A wisdom-filled collection of life lessons that reminds us to slow down the maddening tempo of our lives A nap is a precious thing. It’s a moment suspended in time between morning and evening, where we close our eyes and let go of the thoughts running through our heads. In this place, there is...

Enlightenment begins where reactivity ends. In an era defined by outrage, anxiety, and constant stimulation, The Second Arrow names the hidden habit making modern life harder than it has to be: our reflex to react. Popular spiritual teacher Matt Laney takes an ancient teaching of Buddhist...

あなたはまだ本当の〈時間〉を知らない。 ぐいぐい読めて世界が変わる。 時間哲学の第一人者による、 私たちの常識を揺さぶるベルクソン入門！ 「本書を読み終えたとき、時間についてのあなたの感じ方が少し変わっているかもしれません。大きな結論を手に入れるというより、出来事の見え方をずらせるようになる。予定に追われる一日、ふいに蘇る記憶、迷いのなかでまだ固まりきらない決意。（中略）これらが、単に「ある」ものではなく、それぞれの時間の中で、少しずつ生まれ、折り合い、かたちを変えてきたものとして見えてくる。

"An exceptionally lucid introduction to this famous trial and death . . . The history of the interpretation of Socrates's death, it turns out, is in large part the history of philosophy itself." ―Thomas Meaney, Wall Street Journal There were heroic lives and deaths before and after, but none...

WHAT HAPPENED AFTER ROME FELL? In The Inheritors of Rome, Nick Holmes concludes his series on the Fall of the Roman Empire with a bold and thought-provoking examination of the world that followed the fall. From the collapse of Roman civilization to the rise of Charlemagne's empire, from the...

'Spellbinding, elegant, and urgent . . . Held me from the first moment to the last' Katherine Rundell The great quest of Augustine's life was for truth. This was his true fire. Today, we are still the product of Augustine's thinking, only most of us don't know it. Our world is shaped by his...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We live with wallpaper not only indoors, but also in art, cinema, fashion, video games, and in our desktops and smart phones. A papered wall can represent a kind of unrelenting screen time...

Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of...

The Consolation of Philosophy—a moving and profound exploration of the mysteries of suffering, evil, fate, and freewill—has inspired readers for more than a millennium, from Thomas Aquinas and Dante to Chaucer and C. S. Lewis. Although Boethius, a late-Roman Christian, wrote The Consolation...

An engaging guide to how Stoicism—the ancient philosophy of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius—can help us flourish today. “One of the best explorations of Stoic philosophy that I’ve read.” —Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love...

A brilliant examination of history and language that explains why AI, for all of its wonders, cannot truly speak. For all of history, the only creature on earth that could speak was man. Then suddenly, with the dawn of artificial intelligence, a machine could talk back. AI seems to do the very...

From writer, political cartoonist, and bestselling author Henry James Garrett comes a bold collection of prescriptions for a life worth living. Reject the false courage peddled by contemporary “thought leaders” and manosphere gurus to instead embrace a life of joy, moral conviction, and true...

Israel’s fight is a test for the West: does it still have the courage to call out evil and champion good? Of Good Courage unfolds as an urgent intergenerational conversation between Israeli ambassador Yechiel Leiter, a seasoned diplomat and grieving father whose eldest son fell while leading...

In a world where the capacity to think deeply has been lost, a path back to the original wellspring: our own minds Why does modern life make us feel so restless? Relentlessly busy and overstimulated, we are, counterintuitively, bored. The ancient philosophers would tell us that we’re reaping...

‘An antidote to the maxing mindset and all its attendant ills. I never knew philosophy could be so tender’ BRANDON TAYLOR ‘A passionate defense of the value of thinking, and reading’ C. THI NGUYEN A powerful argument that a life of the mind is essential to our humanity. Why does modern...

The deeper philosophical companion to Man's Search for Meaning from the 19 million-copy bestselling author Viktor Frankl ‘People may have enough to live by; but more often than not, they do not have anything to live for.’ In this thought-provoking collection of essays, Viktor Frankl expands...

The fascinating practice of people watching is beginning to disappear. Whether we’re exchanging messages with absent others or rushing through negotiating the practicalities of daily life, we are often too busy with our devices to notice those around us. But what do we miss when they all go...

Una selección que aúna tres textos clásicos sobre socialismo y liberación: El Manifiesto Comunista, de Marx y Engels; Reforma o Revolución, de Rosa Luxemburgo; y El socialismo y el hombre en Cuba, del Che Guevara, inspiradores para las nuevas generaciones que creen en una sociedad más...