Philosophy & Thinkers

A prophet descends from his mountain to teach humanity about the death of God and the possibility of self-overcoming. Nietzsche pours his most radical ideas into poetic, prophetic prose that defies every academic convention.

A curated selection of Schopenhauer's sharpest observations on suffering, art, human nature, and the will that drives all things. No philosopher has ever been so pessimistic and so entertaining at the same time.

Kierkegaard retells the story of Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Isaac, using it to explore the terrifying leap of faith that lies beyond reason and ethics. It is philosophy written with the intensity of a confession.

Berlin's luminous essays examine the great Russian intellectuals — Tolstoy, Herzen, Turgenev, Bakunin — and the ideas that shaped them. Each portrait doubles as a meditation on liberty, history, and the moral imagination.

Taking a line from an ancient Greek poet, Berlin divides thinkers into hedgehogs (who know one big thing) and foxes (who know many things), then uses this lens to unlock the contradictions in Tolstoy's philosophy of history. A short essay that has shaped intellectual debate for decades.

Herzen's vast autobiography chronicles his journey from privileged Moscow youth to exiled revolutionary across nineteenth-century Europe. It is part memoir, part political testament, and one of the greatest works of Russian prose.

Arendt distinguishes between labour, work, and action to argue that political life — the capacity to begin something new — is what makes us most fully human. Her framework for understanding public and private life remains indispensable.

Sontag's landmark essay collection argues that modern criticism has buried art under layers of meaning and urges a return to the sensory experience of the work itself. Bold, provocative, and still capable of starting arguments.

Foucault traces how Western societies moved from public torture to the modern prison, arguing that new forms of surveillance and control are no less coercive. His account of how power operates through institutions changed the way we think about freedom.