Philosophy
Some readers will know me as the author of Romulus My Father (1998). Romulus is not a book of philosophy, but it was obviously written by a philosopher profoundly affected by painful events in his childhood and the influence on him of his father and his father’s dear friend Pantelimon Hora, who helped raise him. Many people who have read the book said that it is obvious why I became a philosopher.
... (read more)We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's lessons in love and disobedience by Lyndsey Stonebridge
The Buddhist and the Ethicist: Conversations on effective altruism, engaged Buddhism, and how to build a better world by Peter Singer and Shih Chao-Hwei
The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the salvation of philosophy by Wolfram Eilenberger, translated by Shaun Whiteside
A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and war at Oxford 1900–1960 by Nikhil Krishnan
Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Alison Stone
The Poetry of Judith Wright:: A search for unity by Shirley Walker
In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Žižek & First as Tragedy, Then as Farce by Slavoj Žižek
There was a time not so long ago when research on ancient philosophy was confined largely to the study of the great philosophers Plato and Aristotle, and their antecedents. To take one example, in A History of Ancient Western Philosophy, published in 1959 by the respected scholar Joseph Owens, only fifty-one of 419 pages were devoted to post-Aristotelian philosophy, and only two pages to philosophy after the third century of our era. All of this has radically changed. For some time there has been a flourishing industry engaged in research on Hellenistic and early Imperial philosophy. Now the last frontier, the philosophy of late antiquity, is also yielding its secrets.
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