Simon Gros

Few works in the history of philosophy have exercised an influence as profound, enduring, and far-reaching as Plato’s The Republic. Written in the fourth century BCE, this monumental dialogue remains one of the foundational texts of Western political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, psychology, and educational theory. Across ten interconnected books, Plato develops an extraordinary investigation into…

First published in Latin in 1516, Sir Thomas More’s Utopia is one of the foundational works of Western political philosophy, Renaissance humanism, and imaginative literature. Combining philosophical dialogue, political satire, social criticism, and speculative fiction, it presents a radical examination of the institutions, customs, and assumptions governing European society at the beginning of the sixteenth…

First published posthumously in 1677, the year of its author’s death, Benedict de Spinoza’s Ethics (Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata, or Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order) stands among the most ambitious, radical, and influential works in the history of Western philosophy. A masterpiece of seventeenth-century rationalism, it presents a comprehensive philosophical system encompassing metaphysics, theology, epistemology,…

Few intellectual movements have exercised such a profound influence on the modern world—or provoked such enduring controversy—as the Enlightenment. Celebrated as the foundation of modern reason, scientific progress, individual liberty, religious toleration, and political equality, it has also been accused of fostering ideological intolerance, cultural imperialism, technological domination, and the destructive ambitions of modern totalitarianism.…

First published in 1755, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men, commonly known as the Discourse on Inequality or the Second Discourse, stands among the most influential and provocative works of eighteenth-century political philosophy. Written in response to a competition organized by the Academy of Dijon, which asked whether inequality…

What does it mean to understand politics as it actually exists, rather than as philosophers believe it ought to be? Can political life be adequately explained through abstract principles of justice, equality, and individual rights, or must political philosophy begin with the historical circumstances, competing interests, institutional arrangements, and relations of power that shape human…

The Trial and the Death of Socrates brings together two of the most influential works of ancient philosophy, Plato’s Apology and Phaedo, which recount the trial, condemnation, final philosophical conversations, and execution of Socrates in Athens in 399 BCE. Combining historical drama with profound reflections on justice, knowledge, morality, the soul, and the meaning of…

Few works in the history of Western philosophy have challenged established religious and political authority as profoundly as Baruch Spinoza’s A Theologico-Political Treatise and A Political Treatise. Written during an era of intense theological controversy, political instability, and intellectual transformation, these two works represent a decisive turning point in the development of modern philosophy. Combining…

Sigmund Freud’s The Unconscious is one of the foundational works of modern psychoanalysis and a landmark in the history of psychological and philosophical thought. Bringing together some of Freud’s most influential essays on the hidden mechanisms of mental life, this collection offers a systematic exploration of the forces that shape human thoughts, emotions, desires, and…

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science, first published in 1783, is one of the most significant and accessible works of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), the German philosopher whose critical philosophy fundamentally transformed modern understandings of knowledge, reason, experience, and the limits of human thought. Written two years…

Philosophy of Mind, also known as Philosophy of Spirit (Philosophie des Geistes), is the third and concluding part of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s (1770–1831) monumental Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, one of the most ambitious attempts in the history of philosophy to construct a comprehensive account of reality, human consciousness, freedom, society, and the nature…

Karl Marx (1818–1883) remains one of the most influential and controversial figures in the history of modern philosophy, political economy, and social theory. Although his name is most closely associated with The Communist Manifesto (1848), written with Friedrich Engels, and Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867), the intellectual foundations of these works emerged through…

God and the Self in Hegel: Beyond Subjectivism, published in 2017 by the State University of New York Press, is a comprehensive philosophical investigation into the relationship between theology, self-consciousness, and metaphysics in the thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. In this major contribution to contemporary Hegel scholarship, philosopher Paolo Diego Bubbio offers a systematic…

The Wisdom and Religion of a German Philosopher offers an illuminating introduction to the philosophical thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), one of the most influential and intellectually ambitious thinkers in the history of Western philosophy. Originally published in 1897 and compiled by the Scottish philosopher, translator, and social reformer Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (1862–1937),…

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s Aesthetics, also known as Lectures on Fine Art or Philosophy of Fine Art, stands among the most comprehensive and influential philosophical investigations of beauty, artistic creation, and the historical development of art. Building upon the intellectual achievements of eighteenth-century German aesthetics and the traditions established by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Immanuel Kant,…

An Introduction to Hegel’s Logic by Andy Blunden offers an extensive yet accessible examination of one of the most influential and demanding achievements in the history of Western philosophy: the dialectical logic of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831). In approximately five hours, Blunden guides listeners through the philosophical foundations, conceptual structure, historical origins, and contemporary…

Elements of the Philosophy of Right (Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts oder Naturrecht und Staatswissenschaft im Grundrisse) is one of the most influential and extensively debated works of German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831). Published in 1820, although its original title page bears the date 1821, it represents Hegel’s most comprehensive treatment of political…

See also the ebook How can the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, developed in the early nineteenth century, illuminate the struggles for political emancipation, social justice, democratic participation, and collective transformation in the contemporary world? In Hegel for Social Movements, Australian philosopher and social theorist Andy Blunden offers an ambitious reinterpretation of Hegel’s philosophical…

Work in progress… Volume 1: Early Writings I Volume 2: Early Writings II Volume 3: Early Excerpts, 1785–1800 Volume 4: Jena Critical Writings Volume 5: Writings and Drafts, 1799–1808