A Little History of… Independence Day
Yale’s Little Histories are a family of books that explore the history of the world’s most remarkable people,…
A Little History of Philosophy
‘Life Without Pain Has No Meaning’: Arthur Schopenhauer
If you had to draw up a list of philosophers you’d least like to get stuck next to…
The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt
How could humans have committed all those atrocities that characterised the Holocaust? Were they all monsters and sadists,…
Bertrand Russell: Is the Present King of France Bald?
On this day in 1872, a boy was born in Wales who would later grow up to pose…
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Language Games
‘Passionate, profound, intense and dominating’, was how Bertrand Russell described the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. If you had found…
Socrates the Gadfly
‘The wisdom of men is little or nothing’ – Socrates, from Plato’s account of his trial. Yale University…
Raising a Genius: James and John Stuart Mill
Yale University Press’ Little Histories collection is a family of books that takes a closer look at some of the…
Thomas Hobbes: ‘Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short’
Yale’s Little History books take a closer look at some of the most significant events, ideas, discoveries and people throughout history. As…
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
Yale University Press’ Little Histories collection is a family of books that takes a closer look at some of the…
Author Article by Nigel Warburton: How E.H. Gombrich inspired me to write ‘A Little History of Philosophy’
Nigel Warburton’s A Little History of Philosophy is fast gaining critical acclaim (a recent review by the Guardian’s Julian Baggini said that…
Author Interview: Nigel Warburton discusses ‘A Little History of Philosophy’
Nigel Warburton’s engaging book A Little History of Philosophy (published this month) introduces the great thinkers in Western…