Enlightening and fascinating' John Banville, Wall Street JournalThrough the lives of major figure...

'A book of ideas [...] Strathern ably guides us through these moments of glory.' -- The Times ***...

A brief and enlightening exploration of one of our greatest thinkers.

Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense, yet he produced what many people e...

Garcia Marquez stands on the shoulders of a great Latin American literary heritage. But he is als...

Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which comp...

A sweeping history of the Age of Reason, which shows how, although it was a time of progress in m...

A brief and enlightening exploration ofSpinoza's life and ideas, presented in entertaining and ac...

These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in e...

In Kant in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Kant's life and ideas, ...

Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensible and interesting to almost everyone.

Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the worl...

In Nietzsche in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Nietzsche's life a...

In Derrida in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Derrida's life and i...

A brief and enlightening exploration of Machiavelli's life and ideas, presented in entertaining a...

Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the worl...

These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in e...

Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the worl...

A brief and enlightening exploration of one of our greatest thinkers.

A Season in Abyssinia

A brief and enlightening exploration of one of our greatest thinkers.

Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people e...

The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family—a world of saints, corrupt popes, and depr...

Napoleon's attack on Egypt in 1798 was the first on a Middle Eastern country by a Western power i...

En 'Derrida en 90 minutos', Paul Strathern presenta una recuento preciso y experto de la vida e i...

Las dos bombas at?micas arrojadas sobre Hiroshima y Nagasaki en 1945 inauguraron una nueva era en...

Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of an...

'If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it', Paul Strathern writes, 'he is the last philosopher. In...

The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family-a world of saints, corrupt popes, and depr...

Un primer acercamiento a la vida y obra de Confucio, cuyas enseñanzas acerca del gobierno y el de...

Aquinas's life and ideas presented in entertaining and accessible fashion--another title in our h...

La primera ambición de Platón fue la de consagrarse como luchador, pero no pudo llegar a los Jueg...

El brillante sistema metafisico de Spinoza no se deriva de la realidad ni de la experiencia. Part...

Creemos que nuestra ?poca es la m?s grande de la historia de la humanidad, llena de una originali...

En su Ulises, obra clave del modernismo, Joyce hizo añicos las convenciones realistas de la novel...

?Hawking y los agujeros negros? presenta una instantánea brillante de la vida y la obra de este c...

Originally published: London: Johathan Cape, 2009.

Schopenhauer, el 'filósofo del pesimismo', ve el mundo y nuestra vida en él como un mal chiste. P...

En un relato a la vez estimulante e informativo, Paul Strathern ha entretejido en Wittgenstein en...

Dostoevskyen 90 minutos presenta una instantánea brillante de la vida y la obra de este escritor ...

En vida de Jean-Paul Sartre, su filosofía fue bien conocida por estudiantes, intelectuales y revo...

Augustine's struggles with sex and a domineering mother, followed by his spiritual crisis and con...

'I did almost believe the motion of the heart was known to God alone.' William Harvey From selfle...

En los siglos anteriores a él, la filosofía había sido peligrosa para los filósofos, pero con Fri...

Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensible and interesting to almost everyone.

Aristóteles fue preceptor de Alejandro Magno. La historia no registra detalles de esta relación, ...

?Arquímedes y la palanca? presenta una instantánea brillante de la vida y la obra de este científ...

Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of an...