A dazzling exploration of our wishes for innocence and ignorance – and their consequences. Aristotle claimed that "all human beings want to know". Yet we also want not to know. Centuries after the Enlightenment, mesmerised crowds still follow prep...

Hannah Arendt spoke of the banality of evil–the normalisation of the unutterable, simply because that was how things were in any given place and time. Is evil really so disappointing? We expect evil to be dramatic, unfathomable and remarkable; the...

Is our existence in the world a set of separate moving parts to which we must continuously adapt? Or is life a series of transitions as we evolve our understanding of what goes on around and within ourselves in order to realise an authentic self? T...

How can the narratives of the gospels, and their interpretation through the centuries, explain the highly political death of a deeply spiritual figure? Why was Jesus, who said "I judge no one", put to death for a political crime? Of course, this i...

Foreword by Leon T. Goldsmith. A pathbreaking analysis of tyranny by one of the nineteenth century's most prominent Arab intellectuals, now published in English for the first time. "The Nature of Tyranny" was written and published at the dawn of...

One of our most original and compelling thinkers on conflict reflects on the Hobbesian impulse of "war of all against all". What are humanity's biological origins? What are the mechanisms, including culture, that continue to drive it? What is the...

A rich social and cultural history of (un)belonging. A slave woman in 1840s America dresses as a white, disabled man to escape to freedom, while a twenty-first-century black rights activist is "cancelled" for denying her whiteness. A Victorian exp...

The development of thinking machines is an adventure as bold and ambitious as any that humans have attempted. And the truth is that Artificial Intelligence is already an indispensable part of our daily lives. Without it, Google wouldn't have answer...

Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher...

This book seeks to dispel the myth that we have ever been embroiled in some "clash of civilisations". Adib-Moghaddam traverses various intellectual disciplines in order to find a pathway through the conceptual maze that has habituated us to think i...