Like fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good, and it clogs up the system. Efforts to tackle our most pressing issues have ...
Continue Reading βFree thinking, unconstrained by facts The book is based on the thesis that we live in a world of abundance, full of natural riches, and ...
Continue Reading βThis book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and Nick Lane, Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry at University College London and bestselling author. ...
Continue Reading βFollowing A. N. Whitehead, this book takes up the principal challenge facing a natural philosopher who wishes to engage with Nature while rescuing both Life ...
Continue Reading βTo explain the mystery of how life evolved on Earth, Nick Lane explores the deep link between energy and genes. The Earth teems with life: ...
Continue Reading βIn premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical ...
Continue Reading βFirst published in 1992. “Acts of Literature”, compiled in close association with Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida’s writings on ...
Continue Reading βOriginally presented as a speech to the German Academy for Language and Poetry on the occasion of Celan’s acceptance of the Georg BΓΌchner Prize for ...
Continue Reading βComposed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar’s great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, ...
Continue Reading βIn The Promise of Politics, Hannah Arendt examines the conflict between philosophy and politics. In particular, she shows how the tradition of Western political thought, ...
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