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John Ruskin overturned Victorian societys ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design is essential - not for financial gain, but to...

We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes Theodor Herzls passionate advocacy of the founding of a Jewish state grew out of his conviction that Jews would never be assimilated into the populations in...

A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauers works contains scathing attack on the nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges from the American slavery debate to the vices...

Vividly imagining the second coming and capture of Christ during the time of the Spanish Inquisition, this parable recounted in The Brothers Karamazov is a profound, nuanced exploration of faith, suffering, human nature and free will. Included here...

Perhaps the most widely read thinker of all time, Confucius transformed Chinese philosophy with his belief that the greatest goal in life was pursuit of The Way: a search for virtue not as a means to rewards in this world or the next, but as...

Adaring critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, Camus essay examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and argues that since they were both guilty of producing tyranny and corruption, hope for the future lies only...

Since their first publication in 1821, de Maistres dark writings have fascinated and appalled critics, with their relentless hatred of the Enlightenment and view of humans as murderous beasts who can only be controlled by the threat of...

This is Freuds groundbreaking study of a wealthy young Russian man, subject to psychotic episodes and neuroses. Through the patients dream of childhood wolves, Freud was able to determine his real problem - that of infantile neurosis brought about by...

In this collection of eight witty and sharply written essays, Orwell looks at, among others, the joys of spring (even in London), the picture of humanity painted by Gulliver and his travels, and the strange benefit of the doubt that the public...

Describing bizarrely popular Victorian street slang, the madness of crowds, stock market mania (from the South Sea Bubble to Tulip fever), popular fashions, fads, crazes, schemes and scams, this brilliantly entertaining and ever-more relevant study...

Written after the discovery of over forty Bronze Age burial urns in seventeenth-century Norfolk, Sir Thomas Brownes profound consideration of the inevitability of death remains one of the most fascinating and poignant of all reflections upon the...

A profound influence on medieval Europes view of the wider world, this thirteenth-century account of a Venetian merchants amazing experiences in the court of the great Mongol leader, Kubilai Khan, remains one of the most fascinating tales of...

One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamins groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and...

Platos retelling of the discourses between Socrates and his friends on such subjects as love and desire, truth and illusion, spiritual transcendence and the qualities of a good ruler, profoundly affected the ways in which we view human...

Pioneering art historian Jacob Burckhardt saw the Italian Renaissance as no less than the beginning of the modern world. In this hugely influential work he argues that the Renaissances creativity, competitiveness, dynasties, great city-states and...

Foucaults writings on power and control in social institutions have made him one of the modern eras most influential thinkers. Here he argues that punishment has gone from being mere spectacle to becoming an instrument of systematic domination...

This hugely influential work marked a turning point in US history and culture, arguing that the nations expansion into the Great West was directly linked to its unique spirit: a rugged individualism forged at the juncture between civilization...

Influencing philosophers such as Sartre and Camus, and still strikingly modern in its psychological insights, Kierkegaards The Sickness Unto Death explores the concept of despair as a symptom of the human condition and describes mans struggle to...

Aprofound consolation to early believers, these two books from the Bible deeply influenced the rise of the Christian church: the apocalyptic Revelation portraying the religions ultimate triumph over its foes and The Book of Job depicting one mans...

Poet, aesthete and hedonist, Baudelaire was also one of the most groundbreaking art critics of his time. Here he explores beauty, fashion, dandyism, the purpose of art and the role of the artist, and describes the painter who, for him, expresses...