Professor A C Grayling: 9 books
The Challenge of Things
Thinking Through Troubled Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, invariably cause discussion.
The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections such as The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, collecting Grayling's recent...
Liberty in the Age of Terror
A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
"The means of defence against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." James Madison
Our societies, says Anthony Grayling, are under attack not only from the threat of terrorism, but also from our governments' attempts to fight that threat by reducing...
Towards the Light
The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
In Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling tells the story of the long and difficult battle for freedom in the West, from the Reformation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from the battle for the vote to the struggle for the right to freedom of conscience. As Grayling passionately affirms, it...
The God Argument
The Case Against Religion and for Humanism
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
A powerful argument for humanism as an alternative to organized religion, by New York Times bestselling author A.C. Grayling, one of the world's leading public intellectuals.
What are the arguments for and against religion and religious belief--all of them--right across the range of reasons...
The Age of Genius
The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics....
Among the Dead Cities
Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified?
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war? Or do the ends sometimes justify the means? The twentieth century - the age of 'total war' - marked the first time that civilian populations came to be seen as legitimate military targets. At this policy's most terrible extreme came the dropping...
The Good Book
A Humanist Bible
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Few, if any, thinkers and writers today would have the imagination, the
breadth of knowledge, the literary skill, and-yes-the audacity to
conceive of a powerful, secular alternative to the Bible. But that is
exactly what A.C. Grayling has done by creating a non-religious Bible,
drawn from the wealth...
Towards the Light
The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
The often-violent conflicts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were sparked by the pursuit of freedom of thought. In time, this drive led to bitter fighting, including the English Civil War. Then came revolutions in America and France that swept away monarchies for more representative forms...
by Professor A. C. Grayling
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Scepticism as a philosophical term is as old as the Greeks but has more recently been advanced by Montaigne, Descartes and Hume. To these, what little we know that seems certain is based on observation and habit as opposed to any logical or scientific necessity. Thus, sceptical views relate directly...