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Mme du Châtelet proposed intellectual autonomy over the cult of philosophical disciples enjoyed by Voltaire and Kant. She also believed that women should "share in all the rights of humanit... read more

The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman: Emilie du Chatelet and ...

Andrew Janiak

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A selection from Plato's Symposium in a new translation by the author of Socrates in Love.

How to Talk about Love: An Ancient Guide for Modern Lovers ...

Plato

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This American professor of philosophy is a powerful advocate of the life of the mind - and of how to change it.

Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life

Agnes Callard

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Endorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, travel writer/soul-searcher Iyer's agnostic probing into the rituals of silence at a hermitage in Big Sur is a wise, personal meditation on life and ... read more

Learning from Silence: Lessons From More Than 100 Retreats ...

Pico Iyer

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A magnificent work by a preeminent scholar of Buddhism, this ranges from ancient India to the contemporary 'Western gaze'.

Buddhism: A Journey through History

Donald S Lopez Jr

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The Reverend CH-P finds himself deep in Savernake forest, perhaps a sandwich short of a picnic but with his gentle and astute marbles intact.

Lost in the Forest: Notes on Not Belonging from the English Countrysid ...

Colin Heber-Percy

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The father of Neoplatonism hoped to reach India to study the Upanishads, only to be reach the Tigris. Now Mir has not only trailed him to Egypt, Italy, Greece and Turkey but completed his jo... read more

Travels with Plotinus: A Journey in Search of Unity ...

Moin Mir

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The brilliant Princeton historian guides us through the relationship between magic and the Renaissance, demystifying the Magus' relationship with science, art, and engineering in early-moder... read more

Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa

Anthony Grafton

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This is a bewitching and sympathetic account of a deliciously odd, brilliantly clever man. He was prone to headstands, toothbrushing and - like Lord Lundy - to tears.

Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality ...

David Edmonds

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A keen look at contemporary history through the eyes of Hobbes. Gray suggests that the philosopher would not be at all confident that our cheerful liberalism will dissolve the horrors and ha... read more

The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism

John Gray

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Several pedestals are overturned in this entertaining and eye-watering tale of spiritual self-invention and late Empire: deeply fascinating.

Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ik ...

Nile Green

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A zestful exegesis - drawing on the latest scholarship and archaeology - of India's central role in global trade in the ancient and early medieval world, and how this co-existed with the tra... read more

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World ...

William Dalrymple

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Looks at the intellectual, artistic and social - as well as religious - roles of monasteries in both Eastern and Western traditions. AJ also considers the role of women.

The Monastic World: A Thousand Year History

Andrew Jotischky

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The distinguished historian of Christianity disentangles 3,000 years of varied attitudes to sex among Christian communities.

Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity ...

Diarmaid MacCulloch

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An absorbing study of the monarchs, mothers, migrants, martyrs, mystics, missionaries and others who played important roles in the Protestant and Catholic Reformations around the world.

Women and the Reformations: A Global History

Merry E Wiesner-Hanks

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What is freedom and how do we achieve it? The acclaimed historian of the C20th travels The Road to Unfreedom in reverse: freedom understood as the freedom to do and to be, rather than freedo... read more

On Freedom

Timothy Snyder

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Fiction, philosophy and science are braided into an enquiry into the limits of human knowledge.

The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature ...

William Egginton

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A measured account of the Bible around the world, not just in the traditionally Christian countries of the West.

The Bible: A Global History

Bruce Gordon

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A year of saints, day-by-day, with their legends and cults; illustrated with woodcuts by the author, who had a great success with Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain.

Saints: A new legendary of heroes, humans and magic ...

Amy Jeffs

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A riotous, lavish amalgam of Mexican street photographs with illustrations of altars, flowers, painted skulls, toys, paintings, murals etc.

The Day of the Dead: A Celebration of Death and Life ...

Deborah Holtz

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From Ireland to Japan, shrine to cathedral, desert to forest...

Earthly Utopias: Sacred Gardens of the World

Yolanda Zappaterra

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A brilliant and accessible introduction to the life and thought of Blaise Pascal, in forty short chapters. Translated from the French.

A Summer with Pascal

Antoine Compagnon

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Thoughts on how to lead a good life, by the former Bishop of Edinburgh.

On Reflection: Looking for Life’s Meaning

Richard Holloway

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We Believe

A. N. Gilbey

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With or Without Me: A Memoir of Losing and Finding

Esther Maria Magnis

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The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-158 ...

Eamon Duffy

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The Hedgehog And The Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History, ...

Isaiah Berlin

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The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and Th ...

A. C. Grayling

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The Rig Veda

Wendy Doniger

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CC withdrew to an enclosed world in her mid-20s, to emerge a decade later. This memoir of her private struggles and of tension within the institution is both moving and unexpectedly gripping... read more

Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

Catherine Coldstream

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An investigation of Jesus' messianic contemporaries and the reasons for Christianity's success. From the author of the highly regarded The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Cla... read more

Heresy: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God?

Catherine Nixey

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The C10th synthesis of Greek thought in Central Asi. Starr's magnificent book is a cultural and intellectual history of the Islamic Enlightenment and its two chief proponents - Ibn Sina and ... read more

The Genius of their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment ...

S. Frederick Starr

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This rich historical analysis argues that the Enlightenment was a failure on its own terms. Terror, revolution, corruption, gross commercial excess and Empire prevailed instead of Reason.

The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis

Richard Whatmore

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A philosopher and two scientists outline the moral quandaries AI poses and analyse how it might be harnessed for the greater good.

Moral AI: And How We Get There

Jana Schaich Borg

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The first English translation of this often overlooked French intellectual's last lecture, in which Aron emphasises the importance of liberal democracy during the tumultuous years of the Col... read more

Liberty and Equality

Raymond Aron

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Yes, this is a book on how to read the first Book of the Bible - from one of the world's truly luminous novelists, the Calvinist author of Gilead, Home, Lila and Jack.

Reading Genesis

Marilynne Robinson

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