Essays: First and Second Series

Key texts by the father of existentialism, including Diapsalmata, In Vino Veritas and Fear and Trembling. Lee M. Hollander's classic translation, with an introduction.

Søren Kierkegaard

Schopenhauer's most approachable book: what makes a life worth living is who you are, not what you own or what others think of you.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Thoreau's two years in a cabin by Walden Pond, and what they taught him about living simply and deliberately.

Henry David Thoreau

Mill's defense of free speech and individual freedom, and the harm principle that sets the limits of state power. With an introduction by W. L. Courtney.

John Stuart Mill

Mill's short defense of the greatest happiness principle. He explains what utility means and answers the classic objections one by one.

John Stuart Mill