Titres dans Philosophes

A dazzlingly original, "remarkable" account of the life and thought of legendary economist Adam Smith (Financial Times). Adam Smith (1723-1790) is now widely regarded as the greatest economist of all time. But what he really thought, and the implications of his ideas, remain fiercely contested...

This anthology is a miscellany of maxims and anecdotes that generations of Western readers have consulted for edification as well as entertainment ever since Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, first compiled in the AD third century, came to prominence in Renaissance Italy. To this day, it remains a crucial source for much of what we know about the origins and practice of philosophy in ancient Greece.

Born in Vienna into an extremely wealthy and highly cultured family, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) grew up surrounded by art, music, and a disturbing amount of dysfunctional behavior. After studying mechanical engineering and developing an interest in aeronautics, he became obsessed with mathematics and logic, which led to his life's work exploring the relationship between language, philosophy, and reality.

Wolfram Eilenberger har sat nye standarder for formidling af filosofi med denne nye bog, som sammenfletter fire fascinerende biografier, en solid portion fagfilosofisk teori og et portræt af 1920’ernes Tyskland. Tilsammen danner disse ingredienser en både underholdende og tankevækkende...

Esta nova e controversa biografia revela o homem por trás do Mahatma. Sem incorrer na apologia das demais obras sobre o libertador da Índia, mas também sem questionar a santidade pessoal do apóstolo da não violência, Jad Adams nos mostra as mú...

What Socrates’s greatest failure reveals about an ancient question: Can we teach our leaders to be better people? Is good character something that can be taught? In 430 BCE, Socrates set out to teach the vain, power-seeking Athenian statesman Alcibiades how to be a good person—and failed...

Was für eine wunderbare Biographie! Und wie aktuell erscheint plötzlich das ferne 16. Jahrhundert! Nur die Gegenspieler haben gewechselt. Humanismus gegen religiösen Fanatismus. Nationaler Egoismus contra Weltbürgertum. Erasmus hat die EU und die Vereinten Nationen vorausgedacht und die christliche Reformation angestoßen, die dann von Luther, dem religiösen Fanatiker, usurpiert und zur Revolution missbraucht wurde. Erasmus, der Mann des Ausgleichs, hat sich immer wieder um die Versöhnung der Parteien bemüht. Voraussehbar vergeblich.

'Spellbinding, elegant, and urgent . . . Held me from the first moment to the last' Katherine Rundell The great quest of Augustine's life was for truth. This was his true fire. Today, we are still the product of Augustine's thinking, only most of us don't know it. Our world is shaped by his...

Written in 2011. Every prediction has come true. In 2011, David Wortley sat down and wrote a quiet warning. He described how social media would hijack our attention, how algorithms would begin making decisions for us, how our dependency on digital technology was deepening in ways most people had not yet noticed. He called it the "boiling frog" effect — we were changing so gradually, so comfortably, that we would not realise what we had lost until it was too late. That book is this one. And it reads, in 2026, like prophecy.

For two and a half centuries a small confession by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing has sat quietly at the edge of Western thought. He looked across the gap between the accidents of history and the necessities of reason, and admitted he could not leap it, however earnestly he tried. He called it a broad, ugly ditch, and he asked for help crossing it. No one came. This book takes the ditch seriously and then does something Lessing did not dare. It refuses the two easy answers our age keeps offering —that the far bank is solid and knowable, or that nothing is real and everything is permitted.

The 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment, great discoveries, and political revolutions. New ideas about freedom, reason, and human rights changed the world. This audiobook introduces 14 extraordinary figures who shaped their era: from Voltaire and Rousseau to Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven, and on to George Washington, Catherine the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, James Cook, and Alexander von Humboldt.

Bloomsbury presents The Age of Genius by A. C. Grayling, read by Gordon Griffin The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity...

“Teeming with Oxford characters [and] lively storytelling . . . [recasts] the history of philosophy at Oxford in the mid-twentieth century by conveying not only what made it influential in its time but also what might make it vital in ours.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’...

From renowned classicist Edith Hall, ARISTOTLE'S WAY is an examination of one of history's greatest philosophers, showing us how to lead happy, fulfilled, and meaningful lives Aristotle was the first philosopher to inquire into subjective happiness, and he understood its essence better and more...

NEW YORK TIMES Editors’ Choice THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy’s greatest iconoclast Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most enigmatic figures in philosophy, and his concepts—the Übermensch, the will to...

Confucius, philosophe chinois du 5ème siècle av. J.-C., reste étonnamment actuel. Ce qui le rend toujours pertinent aujourd'hui, c'est son humanisme profond et son approche antidogmatique. À une période où la quête du mieux vivre ensemble est essentielle, la sagesse de Confucius nous offre des clés pour cultiver l'harmonie, l'éthique et la responsabilité collective.

The first biography in more than three decades of the Austrian-born thinker Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century According to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosophy is a “battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence...

Die Hörbuchbox "Was uns begleitet" aus der "Bibliothek Europa" präsentiert Meisterwerke der Literatur und Philosophie, kuratiert und jeweils individuell eingeführt von Sven Görtz, in großer Vielfalt der Genres, Themen und Epochen. Franz Werfel gelang 1924 mit seinem Komponisten-Roman...

Nach mehr als einem Jahrzehnt im hektischen Seoul zieht sich der Mönch Bokyeong in ein ruhiges Bergkloster zurück. Doch mitten im eisigen Winter taucht ein unerwarteter Gast vor seiner Tür auf: eine Katze, die gekommen ist, um der Kälte zu entfliehen. Was als vorübergehende Hilfe mit etwas Nahrung und Unterschlupf beginnt, entwickelt sich schnell zu einer tiefen Verbindung. Die Katze bleibt. Und sie wird zu seinem größten Lehrmeister.

This audiobook is partially narrated by an AI voice. Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was one of the most influential defenders of liberty and one of the defining social theorists of the twentieth century. Published to commemorate Rothbard’s 100th birthday, Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and...