Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essential Essays
Previous slide Next slide Ralph Waldo Emerson transformed America by writing in an utterly unique, personal, and insistently optimistic voice about matters […]
Genre: Philosophy
Why I Am Not a Christian and What I Believe
Previous slide Next slide One of the most blasphemous philosophical documents ever written, Bertrand Russell’s “Why I Am Not a Christian” is […]
The Right to Be Lazy
Previous slide Next slide This newly revised and corrected translation of Lafargue’s classic The Right to Be Lazy includes “The Woman Question,” […]
Meditations
Previous Next Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is one of the greatest philosophical works of all time. A collection of personal reflections written […]
Mutual Aid
Previous Next Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution represents one of the major contributions to twentieth-century political thought. A classic, though […]
The Essential Emma Goldman
Previous slide Next slide Emma Goldman, the anarchist feminist political philosopher, was known throughout her lifetime as the “High Priestess of Anarchy.” […]
Tao Te Ching
Previous Next The Tao Te Ching, a more than two-thousand-year-old collection of eighty-one poems, offers timeless insight into how to live in […]
Civilization and Its Discontents
Civilization and Its Discontents is widely considered Freud’s most important and most brilliant work. In it Freud examines why today’s society causes […]
Gitanjali
Previous Next Gitanjali, the most famous work by Rabindranath Tagore, was first published in India in 1910. Tagore modeled these poems about […]
Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Previous slide Next slide Henry David Thoreau’s Walden details his experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days […]