"The best book series in the world"
— Slavoj Zizek

This book series brings together original ideas presented and discussed at the Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice — the European Center of the Berggruen Institute and a contemporary salon of the intellect. Featuring leading intellectuals and published every two months, it offers punchy, stylish, portable reads that help navigate turbulent times.

Subscribe to the series and you'll automatically receive each new book as soon as it's released. Subscribers get a discount of $2 or €1.50 off the list price of each book and are charged whenever a new book is released.

Our 2025-26 authors include:

Giorgio Agamben, The Body of Europe (available now)
Nadia Urbinati, For a Sovereign Europe (available now)
Slavoj Žižek, For a Quantum Theory of History (available now)
Peter Sloterdijk, Midwife of the Intellect (releasing Dec. 2)
Rosi Braidotti (forthcoming)
Wang Hui (forthcoming)
Katerina Kolozova (forthcoming)
Pascal Lamy (forthcoming)
Barbara Cassin (forthcoming)
Zhao Tingyang (forthcoming)
And more!

The next book in the series, releasing on December 2, is Midwife of the Intellect by Peter Sloterdijk.

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