Tim Parks
Author, Italy
Tim Parks is a British author, translator and essayist. He has written 14 novels, the latest of which is In Extremis (2017), and has translated works by Italo Calvino, Niccolò Machiavelli and Giacomo Leopardi, among others. His nonfiction books include Out of My Head: On the Trail of Consciousness (2018) and Dialogues on Consciousness (2020), co-authored with Riccardo Manzotti. He lives in Milan, Italy.
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Cognition and intelligence
You are the world
Are your decisions made by your brain, or via the experience of the world relative to your body? A dialogue on consciousness
Tim Parks & Riccardo Manzotti
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Thinkers and theories
Impossible choices
Learning from his family, his animals and his work with tribal people, Gregory Bateson saw the creative potential of paradox
Tim Parks
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Thinkers and theories
The great disillusionist
In an age when so many people are at a loss to give life meaning and direction, Giacomo Leopardi is essential reading
Tim Parks
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Stories and literature
Inner peace
We yearn for silence, yet the less sound there is, the more our thoughts deafen us. How can we still the noise within?
Tim Parks