Philosophy

An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson. Maybe it was a grandparent, a teacher, or a colleague—someone older, patient, and wise who saw you for who you were when you were young and searching. Someone who helped you view the world...

According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai—a reason for living. And according to the residents of the Japanese village with the world’s longest-living people, finding it is the key to a happier and longer life. Having a strong sense of ikigai—where what you...

Expanded Edition: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering. This book reveals the root cause of psychological and emotional suffering—and how to liberate yourself from it. You’ll learn how to access a deeper sense of peace and clarity, empowering you to...

In this French bestseller, renowned philosopher Frédéric Gros explores the many forms walking can take—from pilgrimages and leisurely strolls to protest marches and nature walks—and what each reveals about the human condition. Gros reflects on how walking shaped the lives and minds of great...

Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists, critics, and readers alike. The rare work of irresistibly inviting philosophy, Bachelard’s seminal work brims with quiet revelations and stirring, mysterious imagery. This lyrical journey...

New Visions. A timeless bestseller, All About Love by bell hooks explores the meaning of love beyond romance, offering a powerful reflection on care, compassion, and connection in modern society. Blending personal insight with cultural criticism, hooks challenges readers to rethink love as an...

Julia Cameron’s groundbreaking approach helps readers identify the blocks and inner barriers stifling their creativity, offering practical tools to unlock inspiration, purpose, and flow. At the heart of Cameron’s method are two core practices: The Morning Pages, a daily ritual of three pages of...

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century.  On Women presents seven essays and exchanges,...

Prince Myshkin, just twenty-six, returns to Russia after several years in a Swiss sanatorium, hoping to claim an inheritance and simply “live among people.” Before he even arrives, he encounters the brooding Rogozhin, the wealthy merchant’s son whose fixation on the captivating Nastasya Filippovna...

Lispector’s most provocative and unforgettable novel. The Passion According to G.H. (1964) follows G.H., a privileged sculptress in Rio de Janeiro, whose ordinary life is upended in a single moment. When she enters her maid’s room, she encounters a cockroach crawling from a wardrobe....

Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking essay remains a cornerstone of feminist thought nearly a century after its publication. In A Room of One’s Own, Woolf explores what it takes for women to write—and to thrive creatively—in a world shaped by male privilege. Through vivid storytelling, incisive...

In Traversal, Maria Popova journeys across the border between life and death, chance and choice, chemistry and consciousness, asking: What makes a body a person? A planet a world? How do we protect our love of truth from the lure of power? What redeems...

Daniel Kahneman—renowned psychologist and Nobel laureate in economics—guides readers on a revelatory exploration of the human mind, introducing the two systems that govern the way we think. System 1 operates quickly, intuitively, and emotionally; System 2 moves more slowly, relying on deliberate, logical reasoning....

Lonely and adrift, a young man—an inveterate dreamer—wanders the streets of St Petersburg during one of its endless summer nights. As he meanders through the hushed city, he encounters a young woman in distress, fending off the advances of an unwelcome stranger. He intervenes,...

A collection of notes, lists, and stories written over several years, originally meant as gentle reminders to Haig’s future self that life isn’t always as dark as it seems. Drawing on history, science, global perspectives, and his own experiences, Haig offers warmth and reassurance,...

New Prose Translations. Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s voluminous, never-before-translated correspondence, this volume offers the best writings and personal philosophy of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets. The result is a profound vision of how the human drive to create and understand can...

Lispector at her most daring and philosophically radical. Água Viva is a mesmerizing meditation on life, time, and the fleeting moments that shape human experience. In this work, Lispector discovers a new way of writing that transforms her personal consciousness into a universal poetry—blurring the...

By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution that resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times.For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the...

FSG 80th Anniversary Special Edition. A groundbreaking collection of essays that examines the powerful and often contradictory role images play in modern life. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, the book has influenced generations of writers, critics, and thinkers since...

Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation.  Drawn from Rainer Maria Rilke’s vast body of previously untranslated letters to grieving friends and acquaintances, The Dark Interval offers a profound exploration of mourning and a deeply humane meditation on death’s place in our lives. Modeled on...

An extraordinary journey into the inner world of artist and musician Nick Cave. Formed from over forty hours of candid conversations with journalist Sean O’Hagan, this book is less a traditional biography and more a profound meditation on a life lived through creativity, loss...

In Island Dreams, Gavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. He blends stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy, and great voyages from literature, shedding new light on the importance of islands and isolation in our collective consciousness.

A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge...

The Stories We Tell About the End of the World. A rich, captivating, and darkly humorous look into the evolution of apocalyptic thought, exploring how film and literature interact with developments in science, politics, and culture, and what factors drive our perennial obsession with...

A stunning 3-in-1 edition of one of the great works of Western literature. An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as his guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and reunion...

In this essential work, Angela Davis examines the history of racism, classism, and elitism within feminism, from abolitionist movements to the present. She shows how these divisions repeatedly undermined efforts toward collective liberation, even as figures such as the Grimké sisters and Frederick Douglass...

The Missing Person (The Schocken Kafka Library). From Franz Kafka, the visionary behind The Metamorphosis and The Trial, comes his first—and most unexpectedly humorous—novel. Amerika follows young Karl Rossmann, exiled to America after a scandal, in hopes of redemption. Instead, he’s swept into a...

In this collection of her most celebrated essays, Natalia Ginzburg examines the everyday and the catastrophic with the wit and grace that have secured her place among mid-century literary greats. Whether reflecting on the loss of a friend like Cesare Pavese, the indelible impact...

Book III n the mesmerizing third installment of Balle’s “astonishing” septology, On the Calculation of Volume, Tara’s eternal November 18th shifts in an instant: she discovers she is no longer the only one trapped in this unending autumn day. She meets someone who remembers—someone...

How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language. As a professional linguist, Adam Aleksic —known to millions as @etymologynerd— grasps the profound importance of language, how it evolves, mirrors society, and carries centuries of human history in everyday speech. As a social media...

A Tyranny of Truth. Hannah Arendt—one of the twentieth century’s most profound political thinkers—remains a figure both celebrated and misunderstood. Best known for her seminal 1951 work The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt offered a fierce defense of openness, freedom, and critical thought in political...

How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up With the Universe. From 1911 to 1912, the city of Prague played host to two of the 20th century’s most enigmatic minds: Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka. Though they moved in different circles, the...

An extraordinary journey into the inner world of artist and musician Nick Cave. Formed from over forty hours of candid conversations with journalist Sean O’Hagan, this book is less a traditional biography and more a profound meditation on a life lived through creativity, loss...

What will the world look like when artificial intelligence outpaces our understanding? How can we protect truth in an age of misinformation, or prepare our children for a future we can barely imagine? What happens to freedom when every move is tracked by data?...

A groundbreaking guide to rejecting the default path and designing your dream life—a life centered around The 5 Types of Wealth.Sahil Bloom offers a transformative guide for redesigning your life around five types of wealth—Time Wealth, Social Wealth, Mental Wealth, Physical Wealth, and Financial Wealth—that...

Part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens...

A haunting portrait of Arthur Rosenberg, one of Nazism's chief architects, and his obsession with one of history's most influential Jewish thinkers. In The Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psycho-philosophical drama. Yalom tells the story of the seventeenth-century...

In 19th-century Vienna, a city alive with intellectual revolution, a powerful story of fate, passion, and self-discovery unfolds. Josef Breuer, a pioneer of psychoanalysis, is a respected physician at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, the tormented philosopher, teeters on the edge of...

Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties.  The Castle's...

Atlas Shrugged is a sweeping philosophical epic about a world unraveling under the weight of its own contradictions—and the extraordinary individuals who choose to withdraw their strength from it. As industry collapses, innovation stalls, and society turns on its most brilliant minds, a single...

Presence is an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over a year and a half, organizational learning pioneers Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers explored the nature of...

In Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a community in which laws, personal relations and professional ambition are based on reason, in contrast...

In a world growing ever more interconnected and volatile, our biggest global challenges—from environmental degradation and poverty to systemic failure—cannot be fixed by piecemeal solutions. Written by the late Donella Meadows, co-author of the groundbreaking bestseller Limits to Growth, Thinking in Systems brings the...

Seeking a sense of home after years of environmental activism, author Paul Kingsnorth moves with his family to a smallholding in Ireland. Instead of peace, he experiences a radical crisis of faith as his tools as a writer begin to fail him, challenging his...

A powerful examination of how we encounter images of war, suffering, and violence in modern life. Following her landmark On Photography, Sontag considers the ways photographs of cruelty shape our understanding of distant conflicts and asks whether repeated exposure to such images inspires compassion,...

And Other Essays. A landmark collection of essays that established her as one of the most distinctive and influential intellectual voices of the twentieth century. First published in 1966, the book brings together some of her most celebrated writing on art, culture, criticism, philosophy,...

The Value of Uncertainty in a World that Demands Answers. In a world shaped by constant change, uncertainty has become an unavoidable part of everyday life. From our careers and relationships to politics and global challenges, the future often feels more unpredictable than ever....

Blending history with gripping suspense, this international bestseller by Umberto Eco explores how a playful idea can spiral into deadly consequences. What begins as a literary joke soon turns into a chilling confrontation with belief, obsession, and power. When a man claiming to have...

The Soul of Japan. First published in 1905, Bushido was the first work to introduce Western readers to the ethos of the samurai. Authored by Inazo Nitobe, one of Japan’s leading intellectuals of the era, the book explores the core virtues of Bushido—honor, courage, justice,...

The Soul of Japan. One of the earliest and most insightful examinations of Japanese culture and samurai ethics written in English, Bushido remains the most influential work ever published on Bushido—the samurai’s Way of the Warrior. Nitobe contends that Bushido’s philosophy offers the essential...