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Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theor ...

Martin Mittelmeier

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes ...

Anthony Gottlieb

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An Enchanted World: The Shared Religious Landscape of Late Antiquity ...

Michael L. Satlow

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The Anatomy of Love

Robert Burton

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The Analects: A Contemporary Translation

Confucius

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The Edges of the World

Charles Foster

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A Theory of Happiness: Lessons from a 100 year old Korean Philosopher ...

Hyung-Seok Kim

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Solidarity: The Work of Recognition

Rowan Williams

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By the author of the excellent Buddhism: A Journey through History.

The Buddha: Biography of a Myth

Donald S Lopez

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A valuable look at Kant's life and work by a distinguished philosopher; translated from the German.

Kant: A Revolution in Thinking

Marcus Willaschek

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An insight into what may be anticipated from the new pontiff.

Leo XIV: The New Pope and Catholic Reform

Christopher R. Altieri

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The allure of Catholicism in the C20th. Some were incensed.

Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark

Melanie McDonagh

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One of the core texts of the early Buddhist canon, this is an introduction to mindfulness and meditation with a weather eye to modern psychology and neuroscience. With the original Pali on f... read more

How to Feel: An Ancient Guide to Minding Our Emotions ...

The Buddha

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A definitive new edition of the works of this giant of philosophy and style. He is a joy to read, and his influence cannot be understated. He is the author of many helpful aphorisms, such as... read more

Complete Essays: Volume 1

David Hume

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A definitive new edition of the works of this giant of philosophy and style. He is a joy to read, and his influence cannot be understated.

Complete Essays: Volume 2

David Hume

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With an introduction by Yiyun Li, this selection brings together Montaigne's profound and inquisitive essays on life, death, and how to live... Also cannibals.

What Do I Know? Essential Essays

Michel De Montaigne

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This powerful C8th century poem, written in the first person, teaches us how to reduce suffering by mastering ourselves and is one of the most important texts of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. A car... read more

How to Be Caring: An Ancient Guide to a Compassionate Life ...

Shantideva

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How Christianity has faded from the centre-stage of our culture, and how this loss undermines our democratic and civic values - equality, suffrage, social justice. A valiant argument for how... read more

The Eclipse of Christianity: and why it matters

Rupert Shortt

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This is far more than a teddy-bears' nit-pick: from Socrates to today's culture wars. Visser delves into why ivory towers have often prompted hostility. Presumably we can look forward to mul... read more

On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All

Arnoud S. Q. Visser

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Religious beauties from the Eastern Orthodox church from the mid C17th to the early C20th: with scholarly notes.

Russian Icons: The Oleg Kushnirskiy Collection

Anna Ivannikova

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A new translation of the Roman nobleman's writings and his turn toward Stoicism whilst he waited, unjustly accused, to die in prison. Could be useful at Christmas too.

How to Cope: An Ancient Guide to Enduring Hardship

Boethius

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His Do Not Call the Tortoise was an earlier gem. Here again GHJ pauses to wonder at the world around us, at the profligacy of existence. And at the inscrutability of woodlice. Be charmed by ... read more

Your Lowly Hedgehog Knows

Gareth Howell-Jones

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Mysticism is about existential ecstasy - an experience of heightening one's senses and self into a sheer feeling of aliveness. Mystical experiences offer us a practical way to open our thoug... read more

On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy

Simon Critchley

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Finds a middle way between the dharma and Greek thought to create 'secular faith'.

Buddha, Socrates, and Us: Ethical Living in Uncertain Times ...

Stephen Batchelor

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Wittgenstein, the poet and painter David Jones, Simone Weil and others...

The World Within: Why Writers, Artists and Thinkers Retreat ...

Guy Stagg

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His work on Zen Buddhism and the modern world influenced John Cage, Philip Guston, Erich Fromm and many others.

Spreading Indra’s Net: The Columbia Lectures of D. T. Suzuki ...

D. T. Suzuki

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Bauer has known the exiled Tibetan leader for over thirty years. These photographs document some of his more private, solitary moments as well as his public appearances and religious activit... read more

Dalai Lama: Photographs by Manuel Bauer. 1990-2024

Thupten Jinpa

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These flourished until the C19th on the margins of the European Christian world: amongst the Sami, in the Baltics and in the Volga-Ural plain. A real contribution to the history of European ... read more

Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan P ...

Francis Young

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Those little figures in the marginalia of medieval manuscripts are often depictions of 'wayfarers'. Barber traces a history of the word, from its origins - with its connotations of the suspi... read more

Finding the Wayfarer: Physical, Spiritual and Poetic Survival ...

Emma Rose Barber

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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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