I tend not to review books in translation, but I did make an exception some years ago for a vigorous new English edition of Tolstoi’s War and Peace since it was touted as “more faithful” to the ...

Wittgenstein argued that words have meaning “only in the stream of life.” Philosophical problems arise when “language goes on ...

During a time when many are complaining about divisiveness in politics and in society, it seems counterintuitive for a book ...

The title of Bob Dylan’s latest book, “The Philosophy of Modern Song,” is a collection of brief essays on 66 classic songs, is less a rigorous study of craft than a series of rhapsodic observations on ...

Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...

A brisk new portrait by Anthony Gottlieb emphasizes the philosopher’s restless, ambivalent mind and Viennese family background. By Nikhil Krishnan Nikhil Krishnan is the author of “A Terribly Serious ...

One difference between guilt and shame, French philosopher Frédéric Gros points out in his book “A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion,” lies in how we understand their opposites. The absence ...

During a time when many are complaining about divisiveness in politics and in society, it seems counterintuitive for a book to make the case that we need to argue more. But in “Open Socrates: The Case ...