Showing titles in Metaphysics

Mysticism is about existential ecstasy—an experience of heightening one's senses and self into a sheer feeling of aliveness. Mystical experiences offer us a practical way to open our thoughts and deepen the sense of our lives, whether through a mainstream connection to God or by taking part in mind-altering experiences. Here, Simon Critchley explores the history and practice of mysticism, from its origins in Eastern and Western religion, through its association with esoteric and occult knowledge, and up to the ecstatic modernism of T.S. Eliot and others.

The first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth century thought. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson became the most famous philosopher on earth. Where prior thinkers sketched out a predictable...

Light in the Darkness examines how mankind has always looked to the skies, mapping the journey from millennia ago when we turned our gaze to the heavens, to modern astrophysics. Heino Falcke and Jorg Romer entertainingly and compellingly chart the breakthrough research of Falcke's team, an unprecedented global community of international colleagues developing a telescope complex enough to look directly into a black hole - a hole where light vanishes, and time stops.

Expanding on his ideas from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche's radical polemic Beyond Good and Evil undermines the assumptions of traditional morality and encourages us to think more critically about the world in which we live.

Bloomsbury presents Noticing by Ziyad Marar, read by Silas Carson What does it mean to ‘notice’ something? To really see it. In his exhilarating quest to help us notice better, Ziyad Marar poses a deceptively simple question: ‘what are you good at noticing?’ In the process of ‘noticing...

Oui, c’est en retournant vous coucher que vous pratiquez la plus sage des philosophies : celle qui consiste à respecter le rythme naturel de vos vies. Les grands génies le savent : la sieste est le secret des intelligences fécondes. Que serait l’humanité sans le repos de Newton sous son...