20th Century Philosophy

Why Thinking Matters More Than Ever: A Personal Journey Through Hannah Arendt’s The Life of the Mind

Do you ever catch yourself going through the motions of daily life without ever stopping to ask yourself what any … Read more

In Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), Sigmund Freud, then 64 years old, took his most daring intellectual leap. He proposed … Read more

Have you ever felt that the world’s most cherished beliefs—about God, about morality, about how to raise children and run … Read more

Do you ever find yourself absolutely certain about something—only to later discover you were completely wrong? If that question makes … Read more

Ever wonder why you feel exhausted by the simple fact of waking up each morning? Do you sometimes catch yourself … Read more

What does it actually look like when a forty-year-old genius is told, calmly and precisely, by his own twenty-four-year-old student, … Read more

Do you actually have a mind, or is that just a convenient story you tell yourself? Bertrand Russell’s The Analysis … Read more

Why does modern life feel like a prison even when you’re free? That is the very warning Bertrand Russell gives … Read more

Why does a book its own author dismissed as having nothing startlingly original in it keep landing harder than most … Read more

Why do you believe the sun will rise tomorrow? Not “why do you expect it,” but why is that expectation … Read more

Why does a book Bertrand Russell wrote in about twelve weeks, for a shilling, for readers he described as ordinary … Read more