Catalogue

Discover the books published by TLR Press

Animal Ethics

Foundational works in the history of animal ethics, newly edited and introduced for contemporary readers.

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№ 01

Plutarch

On Carnism

One of antiquity's most powerful critiques of meat-eating, and a foundational text in the history of animal ethics.

№ 02

Voltaire

Pleas against the Slaughterhouse

Voltaire's most powerful writings in defense of animals, gathered together for the first time.

№ 03

Leo Tolstoy

“Thou Shalt Not Kill”

Tolstoy's writings on animals and vegetarianism, collected in a single volume for the first time.

№ 04

Porphyry

On Abstinence from Animal Food

A landmark of ancient philosophy and a foundational work of animal ethics, extensively modernized and annotated.

Cosmo-philosophy

Landmark texts in the history of humanity's reflections on extraterrestrial life and other worlds, alongside contemporary works exploring the philosophical implications of the cosmos and humanity's place in the universe.

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№ 05

Christiaan Huygens

Cosmotheoros

One of the earliest scientific attempts to imagine life beyond Earth, written at the end of the seventeenth century.

№ 06

Didier Maleuvre

The Persistent Divine. Spirit in the Age of Equations

Has science really banished the divine? A bold passage across physics, cosmology, philosophy, literature, and theology.

Other Titles

Books that fall outside the Press's two core collections, chosen for the same qualities: clarity, argument, and lasting value.

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№ 07

Arthur Schopenhauer

The Art of Winning Any Argument

A sharp, witty classic of modern rhetoric on the strategies people use to prevail in an argument.