Subtitled, }The Story Of The Struggles For Liberty And Rights That Made The Modern West{. Questions monarchy, government, slavery, human rights and equal rights
What do we know and how do we know it? Is there a limit to what we can know? And what is 'knowledge' anyway, in the muddy waters of 'truth', 'reason' and 'evidence'? From the bestselling...
The EU referendum in the UK and Trump’s victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy and Its Crisis A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of...
In this new collection A.C. Grayling extends the range of his previous two books to show how much understanding people can gain about themselves and their world by reflecting on the lessons...
In Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling places the liberation of the individual at the centre of the story of Western development between the Reformation and the late 20th Century. The Modern...
Britain and the USA carried out a massive bombing offensive against the cities of Germany and Japan in the course of the Second World War, which ended with the destruction of Hamburg,...
Scientist, mathematician, traveler, soldier—and spy—Rene Descartes was one of the founders of the modern world. His life coincided with an extraordinary time in history: the first half of...