Kant and the Platypus

Umberto Eco

An attempt to answer the question, how much do our perceptions of things depend on our cognitive ability and how much on our linguistic resources? Eco undertakes a series of idiosyncratic explorations, starting from the perceived data of common sense, to expound a clear critique of Kant....

Madness

Roald Dahl

A woman obsessed with punctuality makes a fateful decision, a wronged woman takes revenge on her dead husband, a cat's curious behaviour comes between a husband and his wife. . . "Madness" highlights a domestic familiarity always on the edge of something much, much darker. Collected together for the fir...