A. C Grayling
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Distills the work of hundreds of authors and more than one thousand texts using the same techniques that produced the holy books of the Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions. Wit and advice, human stories, tragedies and yearnings, love and consolations are shaped into fourteen constituent parts that recall the Bible in structure for a secular age in which many find that religion no longer speaks to them.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world's most eminent thinkers The story of philosophy is the story of who we are and why. An epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents, it explores some of the most creative minds in history. But not since the long-popular classic Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy, published in 1945, has...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Just as Marxism, existentialism, and feminism shaped the last century, so fundamentalism, globalization, and bioethics are transforming our world now. Grayling provides a personal dictionary of the ideas that will shape our world in the decades to come, ranging across the gamut of essential theories, movements, and philosophies--from animal rights to neurophilosophy to war crimes.
Author
Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Prompted by the EU referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the USA, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why, crucially, it matters. First he considers moments in history - Periclean Athens, the English Civil War, the American and French Revolutions, among them - in which the challenges we face today were first encountered...