Philosophers

Acclaimed historian and best-selling author Paul Johnson’s books have been translat...

Confucius stands alone among the world’s great thinkers. Perhaps no other teacher h...

Hegel is regarded as one of the most influential figures on modern political and intellec...

Meet the Man Behind the Myths John Calvin's name evokes powerful images, most of them...

With his well-known idiosyncrasies and aphoristic style, Friedrich Nietzsche is always br...

In the second edition of this Very Short Introduction, Michael Inwood focuses on Heidegge...

Avram Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia in 1928 to Jewish immigrant parents who ...

Born and raised in a small town in Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1...

Rene Descartes was born in La Haye en Touraine, France, on March 31, 1596. He attend...

Even after Greek power waned, the Romans borrowed Greek culture, so it should come as li...

Born in Stuttgart, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) attended the Gymna...

In this book, Tom Sorell shows that Descarates was, above all, an advocate and practition...

This lively and accessible introduction to Plato focuses on the philosophy and argument o...

This book gives a clear overview of the philosophical work of Jurgen Habermas, the most i...

In this second edition of his Very Short Introduction Skinner includes new material on Th...

Born in Paris, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was largely raised by his mother an...

Eric Arthur Blair alias George Orwell was born on 25th June 1903 and died on 2t1 January ...

T. W. Adorno (1903-1969) was a German philosopher and social and cultural theorist. His w...

A dazzling biographical study of the greatest German philosopher of the nineteenth centur...

The acclaimed biographer presents “a perceptive life of the controversial political...