Great Thinkers is a collection of some of the most important ideas of Eastern and Western culture - drawn from the works of those philosophers, political theorists, sociologists, artists and novelists whom we believe have the most to offer to us today.

The School of Life has made the thinkers in this book clear, relevant and charming, mining the history of knowledge to bring you the ideas that have the greatest importance to our times.

Thinkers include:

Plato

Aristotle

Friedrich Nietzsche

Niccolo Machiavelli

John Ruskin

Confucius

Lao Tzu

Max Weber

Margaret Mead

Sigmund Freud

Coco Chanel

Andy Warhol

Jane Austen