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24 witty essays channelling the ancient wisdom of Socrates for the modern age. It was Socrates who asked the question we’re still trying to answer today: what does it mean to live a good and meaningful life? Tom Hodgkinson, the noted bon viveur and the bestselling author of How to Be Idle...

'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...

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 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...

Die selbst verfasste Biografie des größten Frauenhelden und Herzensbrechers der alten Zeit erstaunt durch deren Natürlichkeit und Lebendigkeit im Schreibstil. Als Sohn einer Schauspielerin, deren sterbliche Überreste damals noch auf den Kadaver-Sammelplätzen vor den Toren der Städte entsorgt wurden, legt dieser Künstlersohn eine Lebens-Karriere hin, die einem den Atem stocken lässt.

An intellectual biography of one of the most celebrated and yet least understood figures of the late twentieth century, Terence McKenna. A stand-up philosopher who made a unique contribution to science, humanism, and the hidden arts, Terence McKenna (1946–2000) was the twentieth century's...

Jacques Derrida had a major influence on twentieth century philosophy and the idea of postmodernism. Challenging some of the deepest assumptions of the Western philosophical tradition, he is most renowned—or condemned—for his engagement with the movement that he called 'deconstruction.' In...

Nach mehr als einem Jahrzehnt im hektischen Seoul zieht sich der Mönch Bokyeong in ein ruhiges Bergkloster zurück. Doch mitten im eisigen Winter taucht ein unerwarteter Gast vor seiner Tür auf: eine Katze, die gekommen ist, um der Kälte zu entfliehen. Was als vorübergehende Hilfe mit etwas Nahrung und Unterschlupf beginnt, entwickelt sich schnell zu einer tiefen Verbindung. Die Katze bleibt. Und sie wird zu seinem größten Lehrmeister.

The 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment, great discoveries, and political revolutions. New ideas about freedom, reason, and human rights changed the world. This audiobook introduces 14 extraordinary figures who shaped their era: from Voltaire and Rousseau to Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven, and on to George Washington, Catherine the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, James Cook, and Alexander von Humboldt.

Das 18. Jahrhundert war das Zeitalter der Aufklärung, der großen Entdeckungen und der politischen Revolutionen. Neue Ideen über Freiheit, Vernunft und Menschenrechte veränderten die Welt. Wissenschaftler erweiterten die Grenzen des Wissens, Komponisten schufen unvergängliche Meisterwerke und Staatsmänner formten neue Nationen.

Im Frühsommer 1940 trieb die Wehrmacht Flüchtlinge durch Westeuropa. Wer es nicht nach England schaffte, suchte Zuflucht in Lissabon: Tausende warteten im neutralen Portugal auf ein Schiff. Britische Spione und deutsche Agenten belauerten sich, Rohstoffeinkäufer suchten große Mengen an Sardinen für Hitlers Heer zu kaufen und wichtiger noch: das seltene und nicht zu ersetzende Wolfram für Panzerstahl.

Die Hörbuchbox „Was uns begleitet" aus der „Bibliothek Europa" präsentiert Meisterwerke der Literatur und Philosophie, kuratiert und jeweils individuell eingeführt von Sven Görtz, in großer Vielfalt der Genres, Themen und Epochen. Franz Werfel gelang 1924 mit seinem Komponisten-Roman „Verdi" ein gleichermaßen spannendes wie profundes Werk über kreative Originalität, menschliche Größe und den Kampf um ein Leben im Einklang mit sich selbst.

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is now generally recognized as one of the most influential thinkers of the last century. This Very Short Introduction explores his extraordinary life and thought. His complex system of criticism is difficult for many, but it is coherent in its combination of a Judaic...

The long-awaited and revelatory biography of Hannah Arendt — one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century — and the story of an intellectual icon whose character and ideas continue to captivate and challenge us to this day. Born in Germany in 1906 to a Jewish family, Hannah...

Bruno Latour (1947-2022) est l'un des penseurs incontournables de notre temps, philosophe des pratiques scientifiques et pionnier d'une anthropologie symétrique qui place les humains et le vivant sur un même registre d'existence. Cette biographie sonore - constituée d'entretiens avec Nicolas Truong – retrace son parcours, de ses racines bourguignonnes à ses travaux à Sciences-Po, de sa participation au Centre de Sociologie de l'innovation à ses réflexions sur l'écologie politique.

Written in 2011. Every prediction has come true. In 2011, David Wortley sat down and wrote a quiet warning. He described how social media would hijack our attention, how algorithms would begin making decisions for us, how our dependency on digital technology was deepening in ways most people had not yet noticed. He called it the "boiling frog" effect — we were changing so gradually, so comfortably, that we would not realise what we had lost until it was too late. That book is this one. And it reads, in 2026, like prophecy.

Yoga, in its deepest sense, is not merely a discipline for the body but a science of inner transformation. The same energy that creates suffering can also become the source of freedom, love, meditation, and enlightenment. Nothing within us needs to be rejected—only understood and transformed. In the series of talks titled Yoga – The Science of the Soul, Osho explores Patanjali's original Yoga Sutras, revealing their timeless relevance for modern seekers.

For two and a half centuries a small confession by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing has sat quietly at the edge of Western thought. He looked across the gap between the accidents of history and the necessities of reason, and admitted he could not leap it, however earnestly he tried. He called it a broad, ugly ditch, and he asked for help crossing it. No one came. This book takes the ditch seriously and then does something Lessing did not dare. It refuses the two easy answers our age keeps offering —that the far bank is solid and knowable, or that nothing is real and everything is permitted.

Beat modern burnout and find grounded purpose using the ultimate self-help toolkit of practical philosophy. Whether you are navigating stressful career choices, battling commitment fears, or surviving toxic office politics, the greatest minds in history have already faced your exact struggles...