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The year is 1949. Theodor Adorno returns from New York to bombed-out Frankfurt, tasked with finding enlightenment from within ruin. Susan Sontag is reborn in San Francisco. Michel Foucault attempts suicide, again, in Paris. Paul Feyerabend, crippled by a war wound, recircles his native Vienna...

A wildly original narrative of philosophy in crisis, The Haunted Present traces the dreams and struggles of Theodor Adorno, Susan Sontag, Michel Foucault, and Paul K. Feyerabend, to reveal the true fault lines of our world today It is the winter 1949: Theodor W. Adorno returns from the USA to...

The impassioned correspondence between the Nobel Prize–winning author and the renowned Spanish-born French actress who appeared in his plays, tracing the extreme highs and lows of their all-consuming love affair—a bestseller in France, translated for the first time into English Albert...

Индивидуальная вселенная — не крепость и не лабиринт души. Это хрупкая сборка из осколков мира, которую мы каждый день заново строим из языка, памяти, боли...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche. The complete audiobook in clear modern English. Nietzsche questions familiar beliefs about truth, morality, religion and the forces behind our judgments. The complete work includes the preface, all nine parts...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the greatest truths about life were born not from reason, but from music, ecstasy, and suffering? In The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche challenges the comforting image of ancient Greece as a civilization ruled solely by balance and...

When I was five years old, wrapped in a blanket I pretended was a lion pelt, I banged a hockey stick on the floor and demanded that death be cancelled. Death responded by killing my hamster.That was the beginning of a war I have been losing ever since — along with every other human being who...

Discover the Essential Ideas of Karl Popper—The Philosopher Who Revolutionized How We Think About Science, Reason, and FreedomKarl Popper (1902–1994) stands as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His radical rethinking of the scientific method—replacing...

In the shadow of the Holocaust, Emmanuel Levinas forged one of the most luminous and demanding ethical visions of the twentieth century: an infinite responsibility for the Other that precedes freedom, choice, and even consciousness. The face of the Other, he taught, is not merely seen—it...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if humanity's greatest challenge were not to discover the meaning of life, but to create it? In *Thus Spake Zarathustra*, Friedrich Nietzsche invites listeners on an extraordinary philosophical journey through solitude, transformation, freedom, and...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the greatest threat to freedom were not only the power of government, but the invisible pressure of society itself? In *On Liberty*, John Stuart Mill presents one of the most influential defenses of individual freedom ever written. First...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if everything humanity believes about good and evil rests upon an illusion? In *Beyond Good and Evil*, Friedrich Nietzsche invites listeners into one of philosophy's most daring confrontations with conventional morality, established religion, and...

Bloomsbury presents Sex and the Failed Absolute by Slavoj Žižek, read by Joe Jameson. In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj Žižek provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism. In forging this new materialism, Žižek critiques...

Bloomsbury presents Disparities by Slavoj Žižek, read by Joe Jameson. The concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and argument for philosophers but Slavoj Žižek would argue that what disparity and negativity could mean, might mean and should mean for us and our lives has...

The Medium Is Still the Message presents Marshall McLuhan, history's foremost philosopher of media, as the indispensable guide for understanding the impact of technologies. McLuhan (1911-1980) shows that media are not simply tools of communication: they create new environments with...

Spinoza passe pour un philosophe difficile à comprendre. Son système, pourtant, est extrêmement simple : tout découle de la parfaite nécessité de Dieu. Encore faut-il entendre le mot « Dieu » dans le sens donné par Spinoza : non un Dieu personnel, mais un principe d'unité pour toute la nature. Par le nombre de concepts qu'il aborde et la clarté de ses explications, ce livre propose une synthèse exigeante et accessible de son œuvre.

Lorsque l'on évoque René Descartes, viennent spontanément à l'esprit l'adjectif « cartésien » et la formule « Je pense, donc je suis ». Réduite à une exaltation de la seule raison, sa pensée est pourtant souvent simplifiée à l'excès. Cet ouvrage propose de dépasser ces lectures convenues en restituant la richesse et la complexité de son œuvre, où la méthode s'articule étroitement avec l'intuition et l'expérience du doute.

In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident." In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his work, Cioran writes of time and death, God and religion, suicide and suffering, and the temptation to silence. Through sharp observation and patient contemplation, Cioran cuts to the heart of the human experience.

Entre todas as nossas invenções, nenhuma chegou tão perto de simular o espírito humano quanto a inteligência artificial. O que nasceu como uma ferramenta de extensão das nossas capacidades tornou-se um agente que opera sobre a vida, a morte e, principalmente, sobre a nossa imaginação. A criatura passou a refletir o criador, e esse reflexo agora ameaça despossuí-lo de seu lugar no mundo. Marcus Bruzzo parte desse assombro característico do nosso tempo. Para ele, a IA generativa não projeta o futuro, apenas reorganiza o passado.

We are told that the moral life is a matter of choices, and that a good person is someone who chooses well. Iris Murdoch spent a lifetime quietly dismantling that comfortable picture. For her, the decisive moral work happens long before any choice arrives, in the invisible labor of how we look at the world. By the time we act, the seeing is already done, and the seeing is nearly everything. This book takes the luminous, demanding philosophy of one of the twentieth century’s most original minds and sets it loose in our own restless age.