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Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) was a priest, a mystic, and nearly a heretic (he died before the Church court's verdict).

Does the world we inhabit offer us hospitality or indifference? This question is central to the spiritual literature of all cultures.

In this unique and exhilarating autobiography, Allan Jones - Canada's first blind diplomat - vividly describes how an untreatable eye disease slowly decimated his visual world, most challengingly d

This original and insightful book establishes a reciprocal relationship between Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of ethics and the experience of war.

A collection of essays grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth's remotest corners as well as from our own backyards, and that answers may lie in those pl

In the real world, exploitation exists. In the real world, there is a huge and unjust gap between rich and poor.

This is a hilarious take on the philosophy, theology, and psychology of mortality, Death, the Big D. Humorists have kept pace with philosophers by creating gags about dying.

Alain de Botton examines the origins of status anxiety--the universal anxiety about what others think of us--and reveals ingenious ways in which people have been able to overcome their worries in t

One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of chairs, walls, buildings, and streets that surround us.

Alain de Botton draws on the work of six of the world's most uncommonly brilliant thinkers to offer this panoply of accessible, entertaining wisdom to guide us through our most common problems.

Walden is a classic of American philosophy that describes Thoreau's concepts of self-reliance and individualism.

As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, this mind-expanding dive into the mystery of consciousness is an illuminating meditation on the

Hecht claims doubt and questioning are one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions.

The authors devoted five decades to the study of world history and philosophy, culminating in the masterful eleven-volume Story of Civilization.

Renowned historian Tony Judt's final work brings the twentieth century's conflicted intellectual history to life as the age of ideas.