by A. C. Grayling · Orion Publishing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780753820193
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«The Mystery of Things» is a book of philosophy essays by A. C. Grayling, published by Orion Publishing in paperback (288 pages, in English).
In this collection of essays, A. C. Grayling uses science, literature and history as a starting point to reflect on life and human knowledge. The topics range from Jane Austen and Shakespeare to the Rosetta Stone, the Holocaust, quantum physics, Galileo and alien abductions.
The cover features the subtitle «Life, and What It Means». It is the author's third collection of essays, after The Meaning of Things and The Reason of Things.
It is a work aimed at readers seeking accessible philosophy and short essays to reflect on everyday life topics.
Anthony Clifford Grayling is a British philosopher and author. He was born in Northern Rhodesia and spent most of his childhood there and in Nyasaland. Until June 2011, he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught from 1991. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, an independent undergraduate college in London. He is also a supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, where he formerly taught.
