Philosophy Memory

Acclaimed journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy. In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union. Nearly twenty years later, Ioffe returned to Moscow—only to discover just how...

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics and government.

Matter and Memory, (Matière et Mémoire), published in 1896, was the second book written by Henri Bergson (1859-1941), one of the leading French philosophers of his age. It followed Time and Free Will (1889) and helped to establish him as a major force in anti-mechanistic thought, opposing the...

An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise, based on the popular blog of the same name. Whether you’re deciding which smartphone to purchase or which politician to believe, you think you are a rational being whose every decision is based on cool, detached logic...

In this delightful second installment in Alexander McCall Smith's best-selling new detective series, the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, gets caught up in an affair of the heart, this one a transplant.

Ghosts and spectres, the eerie and the occult. Why is contemporary culture so preoccupied by the supernatural, so captivated by the revenants of an earlier age, so haunted? The concept of Hauntology has evolved since first emerging in the 1990s, and has now entered the cultural mainstream as a...

Akashic Records Explained: Cosmic Memory, Universal Consciousness, Soul Evolution, Karmic Patterns, and the Hidden Library of Human Destiny What if the universe remembers everything? Across centuries of philosophy, mysticism, and spiritual exploration, thinkers have suggested that reality may contain a hidden record of every thought, action, and event that has ever occurred. Akashic Records Explained explores one of the most intriguing ideas in spiritual history: the possibility that the cosmos itself holds a vast archive of human experience. This book examines the origins, development, and...

The author of Free returns with an extraordinary inquiry into historical injustice, dignity, truth, and imagination. When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up...

What if the greatest mystery is not what happens after death, but what happens before birth? Why do we remember so little of where we came from? Why have civilizations across the world, separated by thousands of miles and years, described remarkably similar ideas about reincarnation, karma, the soul, and life beyond death? Could these traditions be pointing toward a deeper reality that has been forgotten, misunderstood, or deliberately hidden? They Reset You at Birth is the first book in The Soul Reset Series, a philosophical and metaphysical exploration into one of humanity's oldest ...

'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES 'If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND 'An astonishing tour de force’ SPECTATOR Shortlisted for the HWA Nonfiction Crown Award Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize From Peter Marshall...

Why did a Mayan priest and a Sumerian king fear the exact same cosmic serpent? Before the first temple was carved from stone, the human mind was already searching for the sacred. But as we look across the dawn of global belief, a profound and unsettling mystery emerges. From the world-ending floodwaters to the towering World Tree, isolated ancient cultures independently constructed the exact same architecture for the divine. How did civilizations separated by impassable oceans and thousands of years arrive at the same answers? This book is an expedition into the oldest memory system on ...

Czeslaw Milosz Explained: Exile, Moral Witness, Poetry of History, Totalitarianism, Faith and Doubt, Memory, Identity, and the Search for Meaning in a Fractured World is a powerful and deeply engaging exploration of one of the twentieth century’s most important literary and philosophical voices. This book brings Milosz's complex ideas to life, guiding readers through his experiences of war, exile, and intellectual resistance while revealing how his poetry and essays continue to speak to modern readers searching for truth and meaning. Spanning themes such as totalitarianism, moral ...

Every world ends. Most of them simply do not tell us when. A belief changes. A body reveals something new. A familiar system stops making sense. A city rewrites its rules. One ordinary moment passes, and the world that existed before it can never be entered in quite the same way again. The Last Time This World Existed brings together four ambitious works that move between social criticism, speculative fiction, science, identity, desire, and the strange machinery of human behavior: Three Games on an American Board, The Body That Reads, The Third Pulse, and The City That Had to Explain Itself...

Learn how you can enhance your brain to take in more information and store it for a very long time, and how to retrieve information at any time no matter how long it has been stored. As you know, forgetting things can be really frustrating and embarrassing. No matter how much stored information you are unable to retrieve, this audiobook is sure to change all your frustrations and change your life forever. Imagine being able to remember anything you see, hear, smell, feel, and taste.

For centuries, humanity has studied consciousness, biology, physics, and mind as though they belonged to separate domains. Perhaps they never did. They only appeared that way because human perception represents a narrow rendering of a far larger structure—a structure that this work develops as a unified mathematical framework. In The Ω-Field, Dr. Erik Gray presents a comprehensive theoretical framework that seeks to unify the deepest patterns of human life—perception, identity, thought, emotion, memory, culture, evolution, intuition, intelligence, and consciousness—within a single ...

“You used to be…” It sounds like memory. It feels like familiarity. But more often than not, it is an accusation. You Used to Be is a quiet, unflinching exploration of how we relate to the people we love through who they were—rather than who they are becoming. Written in a reflective, existential voice, this book examines how memory can turn into authority, how familiarity becomes control, and how love quietly resists change when it asks people to remain recognizable. Rather than offering advice or techniques, You Used to Be stays with the deeper questions: What happens when someone...

The Soul of the City: James Hillman on Architecture, Nature, Community, and the Psychology of Place argues that cities are not just containers for human life. Streets, buildings, parks, vacant lots, schools, libraries, and public squares actively shape attention, mood, memory, and social life. Using the ideas of James Hillman, this book presents a grounded way to think about the psyche as something expressed in the world around us, not sealed inside the individual mind. It asks why one block feels inviting and another feels harsh, why some neighborhoods hold identity while others feel ...

What does the soul inherit? Can suffering become transformation? What happens when civilizations lose intergenerational wisdom? And how do we remember who we were before the modern world taught us to forget? I AM is both a philosophical meditation and a mythic invocation—a call to rebuild the living flame of the House across generations.

How is it possible to have vivid memories of something that never happened? How can siblings remember the same event from their childhoods so differently? Do the selections and distortions of memory reveal a truth about the self? Why are certain memories tied to specific places? Does your memory...

A concise, elegant, and thought-provoking exploration of the mystery of consciousness and the functioning of the brain. Despite decades of research, remarkable imagery, and insights from a range of scientific and medical disciplines, the human brain remains largely unexplored. Consciousness has...