Café Conversations
Participatory Philosophy in Public Spaces
This collection is the first book in English to look closely at the phenomenon and theory of philosophy in a café. The simple activity of reasoning together in a café is relevant to several areas of philosophy: epistemology, including criti...
On Right in a Wrong World
Essays in Classical Philosophical Praxis
Translation of Gerd B. Achenbach's Vom Richtigen im Falschen. “On Right in Wrong” is the second book (after Philosophical Praxis (Bloomsbury 2024) to offer English-speaking readers the opportunity to discover Achenbach's life-oriented and...
How to Play Philosophy
A book for public thinking and the thinking public
Here find philosophy at play, dancing over the concepts and chasms that keep us in quandary. Elite-credentialed street-level guru-ignoramus Michael Picard, MSc PhD, takes aim at public opinion, giving it a friendly push into the deep end....
Philosophical Praxis
Origins, Relations, Legacy
This book is the chief statement of German philosopher, Gerd Achenbach, founder of Philosophical Praxis, who in pioneering this revival of philosophy for life spawned a global movement. Philosophical Praxis is the alternative to psychother...
Forthcoming — Two translations of Gerd Achenbach's works on Philosophical Praxis, published by Bloomsbury.
"It is not the philosopher who presses their questions upon others; rather, the questions of others press upon the philosopher."— Gerd B. Achenbach, Philosophical Praxis (Bloomsbury, 2024)