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

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

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

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

Marseilles, 1891: as Arthur Rimbaud lies dying in hospital, his mind wanders fitfully - taking hi...

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

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

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...

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