This fresh and brilliant history of how philosophy became established in English presents a new form of philosophical storytelling. Ree tells the story of philosophy as it was lived and practised, embedded in its time and place, by men and women from many walks of life, engaged with the debates and culture of their age....

Soren Kierkegaard – the prodigious Danish author who published dozens of genre–bending works of fiction, theology, philosophy and personal confession before his death in 1855 at the age of forty–two – would appear to be changing. Hitherto he has been interpreted either as a grim preacher of doom or as a precursor of ‘existentialism’....

This monograph is the first for David Batchelor\'s remarkable Found Monochromes series. Since 1997, the London-based artist has been photographing single square and rectangle planes of uninterrupted white that he passes as he walks through London and places he visits....