Paul Strathern

Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family....

Rene Descartes spent most of his childhood in solitude, a situation that also came to characterize his adult life....

During his lifetime, Jean-Paul Sartre enjoyed unprecedented popularity for a philosopher, due partly to his role as a spokesman for existentialism at the opportune moment....

Heidegger needed to develop an entire new form of philosophy....

Spinoza's system and conclusions have compelling beauty unequaled in the history of philosophy....

David Hume reduced philosophy to ruins: he denied the existence of everything, except our actual perceptions themselves....

Death in Florence illuminates one of the defining moments in Western history - the bloody and dramatic story of the battle for the soul of Renaissance Florence....

In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler....

With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone....

The Republic of Venice was the first great economic, cultural, and naval power of the modern Western world....