Notes and Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario.
John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential...

Translated by Yuan Shibing and J.J.L.Duyvendak. With introductions by Robert Wilkinson. The two political classics in this book...

Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in...

1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their...

Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever...

Sigmund Freud's controversial ideas have penetrated Western culture more deeply than those of any other psychologist. The...

Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment...

Rene Descartes (1569-1650), the 'father' of modern philosophy, is without doubt one of the greatest thinkers in history: his...

Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and most...

Translated by J.J. Graham, revised by F.N. Maude Abridged and with an Introduction by Louise Willmot. On War is perhaps the...

John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached...

The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years. Such is his importance that the...

As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the...

In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and...

Dating from around 300BC, Tao Te Ching is the first great classic of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism. Within its...

Marx Karl, Engels...

A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of...

Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English...

In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and...

David Hume (1711-1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English, as well as a master stylist. This volume...

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks...

Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom,...

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy...

Translated by A.A. Brill With an Introduction by Stephen Wilson. Sigmund Freud's audacious masterpiece, The Interpretation of...

Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety...

'A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'.
Darwin's theory of natural selection...

Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise...

The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King...

This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of...

The three works in this collection, all dating from Nietzsche's last lucid months, show him at his most stimulating and...

More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description'...