Daniel Maier-Katkin
Two titans of twentieth-century thought: their lives, loves, ideas, and politics.More
Louis Menand, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Has American higher education become a dinosaur?More
Dacher Keltner, Jason Marsh, Jeremy Adam Smith
Leading scientists and science writers reflect on the life-changing, perspective-changing, new science of human goodness.More
Boethius, Douglas C. Langston
One of the most influential texts to come out of the late Middle Ages.More
Steven Pinker
“A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty, and clear.” —New York Review of BooksMore
Mary Wollstonecraft, Deidre Shauna Lynch
Third Edition
Arguably the most original book of the eighteenth century, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a pioneering feminist work.More
Max Weber, Richard Swedberg
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is Max Weber’s most important work and, since its publication in 1904, has been widely considered the most important sociological study of the twentieth century.More
Lynn Hunt
“A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book ReviewMore
Henry D. Thoreau, William Rossi
Third Edition
This revised and expanded Third Edition adds three important post-Walden essays, "Slavery in Massachusetts," "Walking," and "Wild Apples," bringing the full scope of Thoreau's mature powers to twenty-first-century readers. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, Thoreau's survey of Walden Pond, and the 1852 Walling map of Concord village and its environs.More
Christopher Phillips
“[Phillips takes] philosophy out of the ivory tower and into the street.”—Los Angeles TimesMore
Leszek Kolakowski, P. S. Falla
Leszek Kolakowski’s masterpiece, one of the twentieth century’s most important books—for the first time in a one-volume paperback.More
Alexis de Tocqueville, Isaac Kramnick, Henry Reeves
The Norton Critical Edition presents Tocqueville’s classic text in the Henry Reeve translation.More
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
“A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from HellMore
Matthew Stewart
“A colorful reinterpretation. . . . Stewart’s wit and profluent prose make this book a fascinating read.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewMore
Jacques Lacan, Bruce Fink
“Fink’s precise new translation makes this pivotal period in Lacan’s thought more accessible to English speakers.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewMore