The most popular philosophy books of 2026

Polis A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity

John Ma

The Gods Themselves: Rhetoric and Myth in Sumer, Egypt, and Greece Before 355 BCE

Shawn Ramsey, Shawn D. Ramsey

What Is This Thing Called Philosophy?

Daydreams And Thought Experiments

Alec Thompson

The Trial and Death of Socrates

Plato

Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death

Susana Monsó

The Life of Freedom in Kant and Hegel

Thomas Khurana

Karl Marx’s Ethics of Human Flourishing On Karl Marx's Proletarian Ethics of Human Flourishing

Sam Badger

The Disintegrating Conscience and the Decline of Modernity

Steven D. Smith

Philosophies of India

Heinrich Zimmer

Philosophies of India

Heinrich Zimmer

The Idiots The History of the Homo Nullus

Leonhard Emmerling

The Idiots The History of the Homo Nullus

Leonhard Emmerling

Piano Decompositions The Ecology of Destroyed and Decaying Instruments

Beate Schirrmacher, Heidi Hart

Piano Decompositions The Ecology of Destroyed and Decaying Instruments

Beate Schirrmacher, Heidi Hart

Machiavellian Ontology Political Conflict and Philosophy

Francesco Marchesi

Servus How Slavery Made the Roman World

Emma Southon

The Right to Oblivion Privacy and the Good Life

Lowry Pressly, Lecturer in the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Harvard University Lowry Pressly

What Did the Deep Sea Say?

Marion Coutts

What Did the Deep Sea Say?

Marion Coutts

The Joy of Revolution & Related Texts

Ken Knabb

The Joy of Revolution and Related Texts

Ken Knabb

Categories A Study of a Concept in Western Philosophy and Political Thought

Luke O'Sullivan, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science Luke O'Sullivan

Cicero Tusculan Disputations Oct Cloth Tusculan Disputations

Oxford Editor, Harold Nicolson