Reading it, you will be led by Junichiro Tanizaki's light touch into a mysterious and tranquil world of darkness and shadows, where gold flashes in the gloom and a deep stillness reigns.

Bohm describes how the notion of Relativity strikes at the heart of our very conception of the universe, regardless of whether we are physicists or philosophers.

In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most "material" dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender.

Central to Maurice Merleau-Ponty's thought was the idea that human understanding comes from our bodily experience of the world that we perceive. This title provides a guide to a whole universe of experience, from the pursuit of scientific knowledge, through the psychic life of animals to the glories of the art of Paul Cezanne.

In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transformed.

Intriguing and inspiring, this book has the solution to every question.

This thought-provoking introduction outlines Taylor's ideas in a coherent and accessible way. Essential reading for students of philosophy, religion and political theory, and will be welcomed by the non-specialist looking for a guide to Taylor's body of work.

Thoroughly revised throughout and includes a new chapter on Chomsky's theory of grammar. The concluding chapter on modern directions in philosophy of language has been expanded to two chapters and now cover crucial emergent areas of study such as slurs, conceptual engineering, and experimental philosophy.

A heartbreaking plea for tolerance and compassion from Mohamed El-Bachiri, who lost his wife Loubna in the Brussels attack of March 2016.

Solnit's revelatory modern classic exploring philosophy, history, art and metaphysics