# Books to Read

## How to Start

> **Bertand Russell: History of Western Philosophy** <br>
> Routledge, 1996, first published 1946 <br>

This is one of the most popular introductions to philosophy 
and won Russell the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.
It covers in roughly equal parts Antiquity, Middle Ages and Modernity.
Plato and Aristotle are particularly well presented.


> **Hans Joachim Störig: Kleine Weltgeschichte der Philosophie** <br>
> Kohlhammer Verlag, 2016 (18. Auflage), erste Auflage 1950 <br>
> 

## Antiquity

> **Pierre Hadot: Qu'est-ce que la philosophie antique?**
>
> Éditions Gallimard, 1995

> **Karl Popper: The Open Society and its Enemies (Vol. 1):
> The Spell of Plato**
> 
> Routledge, 2003, first published 1945

## Middle Ages

> **Peter Adamson: Medieval Philosophy**
> 
> Oxford University Press, 2019

## Modern Topics

> **Gaspard Koenig: Voyages d'un philosophe aux pays des libertés**
> 
> Éditions de l'Observatoire, 2018

> **Gaspard Koenig: La fin de l'individu**
> 
> Éditions de l'Observatoire, 2019

> **Gaspard Koenig: Notre vagabonde liberté**
> 
> Éditions de l'Observatoire, 2021>