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The final installment in the New York Times bestselling Stoic Virtues series: the essential, life-changing and hard-won virtue of wisdom.Wisdom depends on curiosity. It demands humility. It requires a willingness to learn from the past in order to overcome the obstacles of the present - and we need ...

A timely and compelling meditation on the nature of truth and lies, fact and fiction, by the legendary filmmaker and global cultural icon.What if a lie is told to reveal some underlying truth? Are feelings that seem inappropriate, such as hysteria following the death of a celebrity, any less true th...

The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. His , written when he was in his forties, recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle, to become inste...

'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be in encounter is to have already ventured forth. Adventure: far from being enclosed in the interiority...

Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political historyThe Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial impe...

"It is philosophy that has the duty of protecting us..without it no one can lead a life free of fear or worry."For several years of his turbulent life, Seneca was the guiding hand of the Roman Empire. His inspired reasoning derived mainly from the Stoic principles, which had originally been develope...

A foundational text since 1990 and previously translated into nine languages, Free Play is a masterful and joyful meditation on how improvisation can be applied to not just art but the art of living - and in doing so unlock boundless creativityThis book is about the inner sources of spontaneous crea...

French philosopher Simone Weil's best known work that promotes mindful living and instructs readers how they can once again feel rooted, in a cultural and spiritual sense, to their environmentA Penguin ClassicOne of the foremost French philosophers of the last century, Simone Weil has been described...

Hans Ulrich Obrist met the Martinique-born philosopher, poet, and public intellectual Édouard Glissant in 1999; the encounter influenced the direction of Obrist's work for years to come. As one of today's most prolific producers of culture, Obrist has left an indelible mark-and Glissant through him...

The language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak, for it is addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved. It is a language of solitude, of mythology, of what Barthes calls an 'image repertoire'.This book revives - beyond the psychological or clinical enterprises which have c...

This is a story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules..people who get special pleasure out of doing something well, even if only for themselves..people who know there's more to this living than meets the eye: they’ll be right there with Jonathan, flying higher and faster than...

Arevelatory read to reorientate your life, in Consolations II David Whyte explores the underlying meaning of 52 everyday words and invites reader to think more deeply about the choices that influence our livesDavid Whyte's Consolations use everyday words to present us with a prism through which to b...

The original mindfulness book, in a landmark new translation by the award-winning translator of the I Ching and The Art of WarA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paperThe most translated book in the world after the Bible, the Tao Te Ching, or “Book of the Tao," is a guid...

What does 'progress' mean? Can things get better? And how, when we are constantly battered on all sides by deepfakes, doomers and disorienting relativisms, can we make any headway at all in the face of unprecedented ecological, social and political crises?In this collection of iconoclastic essays, S...

The most provocative philosopher of our times with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicamentWe hear all the time that it's five minutes to global doomsday, so now is our last chance to avert disaster. But what if the only way to prevent a catastrophe is to assume that it has ...

I heard this crazy story, and I want you to know. It is the age of internet gossip; of social networks, repackaged ideas and rating everything out of five stars. Mega-famous celebrities respond with fury to critics who publish less-than-rapturous reviews of their work (and then delete their tweets);...

was an instant literary sensation when it was first published in 1956, thrusting its youthful author into the front rank of contemporary writers and thinkers. Wilson rationalized the psychological dislocation so characteristic of Western creative thinking into a coherent theory of alienation, and de...

One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first centuryA Penguin ClassicWidely regarded as one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein's a succinct yet wide-ranging exploration of language and logic, sci...

From the author of Orientalism, a searching examination of western culture and the roots of imperialism, now with a foreword by Hari Kunzru'Readers accustomed to the precision and elegance of Edward Said's analytical prowess will not be disappointed. Those discovering Said for the first time will be...

''A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything'' Amitav GhoshThe Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins l...

of wisdom from the ancient worldIn the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred years before Einstein--Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that everything becomes energy in flux, in relativity. His great book, On Nature, the world's first coherent philosophical treatis...

From philosopher Agnes Callard, one of today's leading public intellectuals, comes a new and vibrant understanding of Socrates, his work, and his unique approach to learningThe ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, perhaps the single most important figure in Western culture, is hidden in plain view. I...

What does life truly mean? Who do I want to become? And how do I get there?These are some of life''s biggest questions that are hard to think through. Fortunately, a group of philosophers from ancient Greece and Rome have already done a lot of the heavy lifting. In Live Like A Philosopher you will l...

Édouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, is increasingly attracting attention from English-speaking readers. Born in Martinique in 1928, Glissant earned a doctorate from the Sorbonne. When he returned to his nati...