**A NEW YORK TIMES AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos, the true limits of the mind—and each in their own way uncovered a revelatory truth about our place in the world“[A] mind-expanding book. . . . Elegantly written.” —The New York Times“A remarkable synthesis of the thoughts, ideas, and discoveries of ...

A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explore the greatest enigmas of the universe in this scintillatingly original book about the limits of human knowledge 'Fascinating' Carlo Rovelli 'Remarkable... Exciting, provocative, and illuminating' John Banville, Wall Street Journal Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak. But the breakdown that followed illuminated an incontrovertible truth - that love is necessarily imbued with loss...

Che cos’è la realtà? Difficile credere che anche una sola persona, nella storia dell’umanità, non se lo sia chiesto almeno una volta. Eppure, la risposta continua a sfuggire: si è celata nei versi dei poeti, si è travestita da rigore nei laboratori degli scienziati, ha vagato tra le pagine dei testi sacri e di quelli di finzione, sospesa tra ciò che possiamo affermare e ciò che desideriamo credere. Con La biblioteca dei quanti, William Egginton ci guida in un viaggio sorprendente ai margin...

El reconocido catedrático William Egginton nos ofrece un ensayo fascinante que explora la conexión entre la física cuántica, la filosofía y la literatura a través del análisis de tres grandes figuras: el escritor Jorge Luis Borges, el físico Werner Heisenberg y el filósofo Immanuel Kant.Un poeta, un físico y un filósofo exploraron los mayores enigmas del universo: la naturaleza del libre albedrío, el extraño tejido del cosmos y los verdaderos límites de la ...

In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in hum...

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a force of nature. At 90 years old he is still making films and is a cultural phenomenon who has influenced other artists as disparate as John Waters and Yoko Ono. Although his body of work has long been considered disjointed and random, William Egginton claims that Jodorowsky's writings, theatre work and mime, and his films, along with the therapeutic practice he calls psychomagic, can all be tied together to form the philosophical programme that underpins his film...

In his latest book, William Egginton laments the current debate over religion in America, in which religious fundamentalists have set the tone of political discourse—no one can get elected without advertising a personal relation to God, for example—and prominent atheists treat religious belief as the root of all evil. Neither of these positions, Egginton argues, adequately represents the attitudes of a majority of Americans who, while identifying as Christians, Jews, and Muslims, do not fi...

A timely, provocative, necessary look at how identity politics has come to dominate college campuses and higher education in America at the expense of a more essential commitment to equality.Thirty years after the culture wars, identity politics is now the norm on college campuses-and it hasn't been an unalloyed good for our education system or the country. Though the civil rights movement, feminism, and gay pride led to profoundly positive social changes, William ...

**A NEW YORK TIMES AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos, the true limits of the mind—and each in their own way uncovered a revelatory truth about our place in the world“[A] mind-expanding book. . . . Elegantly written.” —The New York Times“A remarkable synthesis of the thoughts, ideas, and discoveries of ...

'In 1605 a crippled, greying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. That book, Don Quixote*, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the most widely read author in human history. Cervantes did more than just publish a bestseller, though. He invented a way of writing.'*In Cervantes' time, 'fiction' was synonymous with a lie. Books were either history, and true, ...

Ένας ποιητής, ένας φυσικός και ένας φιλόσοφος εξερεύνησαν τα μεγαλύτερα αινίγματα του σύμπαντος –τη φύση της ελεύθερης βούλησης, την παράξενη υφή της πραγματικότητας, τα αληθινά όρια του νου– και αποκάλυψαν, ο καθένας με τον δικό του τρόπο, μια διαφωτιστική, πανανθρώπινη υπαρξιακή αλήθεια. Ο νεαρός Αργεντίνος ποιητής Χόρχε Λουίς Μπόρχες ήταν τρελά ερωτευμένος και ο ξαφνικός χωρισμός του τον έκανε να καταρρεύσει στην κυριολεξία. Όμως αυτή ακριβώς η κατάρρευση ήταν που τον έκανε επίσης να συ...

The Theater of Truth argues that seventeenth-century baroque and twentieth-century neobaroque aesthetics have to be understood as part of the same complex. The Neobaroque, rather than being a return to the stylistic practices of a particular time and place, should be described as the continuation of a cultural strategy produced as a response to a specific problem of thought that has beset Europe and the colonial world since early modernity. This problem, in its simplest philosophi...