Pragmatism category: 176 books

Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life*,* de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing...

This collection represents the rediscovery of Josiah Royce’s rich legacy that has occurred over the past decade. The first part presents a series of historical explorations. The second takes up practical extensions of Royce’s work, bringing his ideas and methods to bear on contemporary...

We all want to be happy but what is happiness? Haim Shapira navigates the terrain of happiness, exploring and contemplating an eclectic range of theories and insights into the conflicts we face on our journey to creating our own happiness. What is your happiest moment? How can you know it?...

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” - Socrates. Aristippus of Cyrene, Epitimedes, Hegesias the Death Persuader, Dionysius the Renegade and Theodorus the Atheist were the leading lights of The Cyrenaics, an early Socratic school active between the fourth and third centuries BCE. Often...

  A survey of the influential—and prolific—modern philosopher   In dozens of books, magazine articles, and essays, George Santayana infused his philosophy with exquisite language, wit, and subtle humor, prompting one authority to state that he “writes philosophy more beautifully...

Il paraît que l’opinion publique en Allemagne interdit de parler des conséquences néfastes et dangereuses d’une guerre, surtout s’il s’agit d’une guerre victorieuse. On écoute d’autant plus volontiers ces écrivains qui ne connaissent pas d’opinion plus...

Santayana at 150: International Interpretations is a collection of essays by seventeen authors celebrating the life and thought of Spanish–American philosopher George Santayana. This book appears on the occasion of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Santayana’s birth. Appropriately, the...

John Dewey (1859 - 1952) was the dominant voice in American philosophy through the World Wars, the Great Depression, and the nascent years of the Cold War. With a professional career spanning three generations and a profile that no public intellectual has operated on in the U.S. since, Dewey's biographer...

America has a love–hate relationship with individualism. In Reconstructing Individualism, James Albrecht argues that our conceptions of individualism have remained trapped within the assumptions of classic liberalism. He traces an alternative genealogy of individualist ethics in four major American...

Anyone who’s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor’s Lexus had better read Alain de Botton’s irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents turns his attention to the insatiable quest for...

A critique to the societies we live in and an invitation to dare and be yourself so as to find inner freedom, identify your battles, and fight them! This book is not for the weak hearted. It is for people who are over 24, have had a rough life, and are not about to give up. Countless religions,...

Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people. Using these points as a base it defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke's attack in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).

How To Analyze People The Practical Guide With Proven Tricks To Human Psychology, Body Language and How To Read People Instantly Do you want to learn how to better understand people?  Do you want to learn more about analyzing people's behavior or words?  Do you want to learn to better understand...

WHY ARE SOME PEOPLE INEXPLICABLY LUCKY THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES WHILE OTHERS SEEM ILL-FATED FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE? The answer to that question is not as sibylline as you might think. In fact, it is very easy to attract good luck. The book reveals easy yet powerful ways to set your...