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Some people have something to say in any conversation and can spot the hidden angles of completely unrelated problems; but how do they do it? So...

Said to have its origins in the 'treasure texts' that were supposedly hidden away by Padmasambhava, the Lotus Guru, in Tibet in the 8th century, Th...

The world is full of problems and conflicts. So why can we not solve them? According to Edward de Bono, world thinking cannot solve world problems ...

"Could it be possible? This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!" The ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends f...

The year is 1919. Walter Benjamin flees his overbearing father to scrape a living as a critic. Ludwig Wittgenstein signs away his inheritance, seek...

'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy'Wh...

'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no ...

The unexamined life is not worth living - Plato (c.427-347BC) This book traces the historical development of philosophical thought from the Anc...

Written in 1888, shortly before Nietzsche succumbed to mental illness, Ecce Homo (originally entitled Why I Am So Wise) is his last book, an intell...

What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something...

Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. As a philosopher, historian and politica...

A cornerstone of Sartre's philosophy, The Imaginary was first published in 1940. Sartre had become acquainted with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl...

The Book of Tea describes all aspects of the Japanese tea ceremony and explains how its rituals blend seamlessly with traditional Japanese life.Par...