Philosophy

Take 25 of the liveliest philosophers of our time.

Can capital be seen?

How do you solve a problem like understanding Iraq?

From philosophy's founding fathers - Thales, Socrates, Plato.

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Alexis de Tocqueville's 1838 Democracy in America is a classic of political theory - and of the problem-solving skills central to putting forward political ideas.

John Maynard Keynes's 1936 General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money is a perfect example of the global power of critical thinking.

Today we take it for granted that history is much more than the story of great men and the elites from which they spring.

Michel Foucault's 1969 essay "e;What is an Author?

A flagbearer for the increasingly fashionable genre of "e;transnational history,"e; Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands is, first and foremost, a stunning example of the critical thinking skill of evaluation.

Richard Evans wrote In Defence of History at a time when the historian's profession was coming under heavy attack as a result of the 'cultural turn' taken by the discipline during the late 1980s and the 1990s.

Mary Douglas is an outstanding example of an evaluative thinker at work.

Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker.

Exploration and Exploitation is a key text for scholars and business practitioners interested in promoting economic well-being and sustainable growth.

Rachel Carson's 1962 Silent Spring is one of the few books that can claim to be epoch-making.

An ontological and epistemological framework and foundation for the psychological symptom 'neurosis'.

Over the past few hundred years, animism has been dismissed as a primitive, naive and irrational perspective, irrelevant within the civilised West.

The Dutch anthropologist Geert Hofstede is recognized as a pioneer in the fields of international management and social psychology - and his work is a perfect example of the ways in which interpretative skills can help solve problems and provide the foundation for strong thinking and understanding both in business and beyond.

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There is arguably no more famous book about the arts of interpretation and analysis than Sigmund Freud's 1899 Interpretation of Dreams.

The Dutch anthropologist Geert Hofstede is recognized as a pioneer in the fields of international management and social psychology - and his work is a perfect example of the ways in which interpretative skills can help solve problems and provide the foundation for strong thinking and understanding both in business and beyond.

Friedrich Hayek's 1944 Road to Serfdom is a classic of conservative economic argument.

Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese Aesthetics.

A Room of One's Own is a very clear example of how creative thinkers connect and present things in novel ways.

A critical analysis of Karl Marx's Capital, which is without question one of the most influential books to be published in the course of the past two centuries.

Kenneth Waltz's 1979 Theory of International Politics is credited with bringing about a "e;scientific revolution"e; in the study of international relations - bringing the field into a new era of systematic study.

Understanding why revolutions take place when they do, and as they do, is important in itself.

For 2,000 years, the standard philosophical model of knowledge was that it could be defined as a justified true belief.

In The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, neurologist Oliver Sacks looked at the cutting-edge work taking place in his field, and decided that much of it was not fit for purpose.

The City of God against the Pagans is a central text in the Western intellectual tradition.

American political theorist Robert Dahl's 1961 work of political theory exhibits deep levels of creative thinking.

Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a series of lessons in the applied art of problem solving.

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The 1979 publication of Susan Gubar and Sandra M.

Hamid Dabashi's 1997 work Theology of Discontent reveals a creative thinker capable not only of understanding how an argument is built, but also of redefining old issues in new ways.

How was the Soviet Union like a soup kitchen?

Elizabeth Anscombe's 1958 essay "e;Modern Moral Philosophy"e; is a cutting intervention in modern philosophy that shows the full power of good evaluative and analytical critical thinking skills.

Henry Kissinger's 2014 book World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History not only offers a summary of thinking developed throughout a long and highly influential career-it is also an intervention in international relations theory by one of the most famous statesmen of the twentieth century.

A critical analysis of David C.

A Room of One's Own is a very clear example of how creative thinkers connect and present things in novel ways.

Aristotle's Metaphysics is a collection of essays on a wide range of topics, almost certainly never put together by Aristotle himself.

What is a self?

Thomas Robert Malthus' 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population helped change the direction of economics, politics, and the natural sciences with its reasoning and problem solving.

In einer Felsspalte ein wasserdicht verschlossenes Kästchen, darin handschriftliche Aufzeichnungen und Gedichte, die offensichtlich von einem Kind stammen, einem Jungen, der vor etwa 160 Jahren gelebt hat!

Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker.

David Hume's 1748 Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a modern philosophical classic that helped reshape epistemology - the philosophy of knowledge.

English economist John Hobson's 1902 Imperialism: A Study was an epoch-making study of the politics and economics of imperialism that shook imperialist beliefs to their core.