Thinking of Answers

The essays in this book, drawn mainly from A. C. Grayling's columns in Prospect, the Dubliner and...

Liberty in the Age of Terror

'The means of defence against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny ...

Among the Dead Cities

Britain and the USA carried out a massive bombing offensive against the cities of Germany and Jap...

Towards the Light

The often-violent conflicts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were sparked by the pursuit ...

Good Book

Drawing on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative non-religious writing on all that it means ...

The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Humanism

The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Humanism presents an edited collection of essays that e...

Democracy and Its Crisis

Prompted by events in recent years in the UK and the USA, in Latin America, Russia and the Middle...

What is Good?

Towards the Light

In Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling tells the story of the long and difficult battle for freedom ...

Challenge of Things

A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage wit...

Age of Genius

What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe m...

Scepticism and the Possibility of Knowledge

Scepticism as a philosophical term is as old as the Greeks but has more recently been advanced by...