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`I should like to show here that the Ego is neither formally or materially in consciousness: it is outside, in the world.’ Jean-Paul Sartre The Transcendence of the Ego is one of Jean-Paul Sartre’s earliest…

Peter Strawson (1919-2006) was one of the leading British philosophers of his generation and an influential figure in a golden age for British philosophy between 1950 and 1970. The Bounds of Sense is one of…

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNES When this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female…

Marriage and Morals is a compelling cross-cultural examination of individual, familial and societal attitudes towards sex and marriage. By exploring the codes by which we live our sexual lives and conventional morality, Russell daringly sets…

Written by one of the twentieth century’s most significant thinkers, Freedom and Organization, is considered to be Bertrand Russell’s major work on political history. It traces the main causes of political change during a period…

Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in…

Paul Ricoeur is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time. In The Rule of Metaphor he seeks ‘to show how language can extend itself to its very limits, forever discovering…

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World presents a highly original global theory of culture. Here, in his greatest work, Rene Girard explores the function of violence, mimetic desire and the mechanism of the…

‘We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth … Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater’ This volume contains a…

The #1 Sunday Times bestseller from ‘the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now’ (New York Times) – now in paperback. How should we live properly in a world of chaos and…

The #2 Sunday Times Bestseller A reminder of the most important things in life. A book of hope for uncertain times. Enter the world of Charlie’s four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most…

WOULD YOU KILL ONE PERSON TO SAVE FIVE OTHERS? If you could upload all of your memories into a machine, would that machine be you? Is it possible we’re all already artificial intelligences, living inside…

The summation of the existentialist philosophy threaded throughout all his writing, Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus is translated by Justin O’Brien with an introduction by James Wood in Penguin Classics. In this profound and…

Here’s an accusation – Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything. When it comes to language, it all depends on what your definition of `is’ is. And one for the existentialists – you haven’t lived until you…

A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true ‘churches’, Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth-century thinkers. In this influential…