The novelist and poet Ursula K Le Guin shows we can reject nihilism and naive optimism by practising our collective freedom ...

The boundaries between internal experience and the external world blur in this immersive animated rendering of autism ...

For the 84-year-old Jun, staging his own show-stopping fake funeral becomes a glorious celebration of life still to be lived ...

From detoxes to slow food, today’s asceticism is often about fitting in. But we can rediscover its transformative power ...

is a senior lecturer in political theory at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has written two books about pragmatism, and is writing one on Ralph Waldo Emerson and another on psychoanalysis.

is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Alberta, Canada.

In our age of certainty and dogma, we would all do well to learn from the philosophy of the ancient Greco-Roman sceptics We live in a paradoxical time: despite the proliferation of critical thinking ...

The 16th-century ‘spiritual rock-star’ shows how seeing your soul as a castle can be a source of strength and consolation Courtesy the BnF, Paris ...