HowTheLightGetsIn 2013

HowTheLightGetsIn the world’s largest philosophy and music festival, is back. With more than two-hundred of the world's leading philosophers, musicians, writers and scientists joining us to investigate this year's theme of 'Error, Lies and Adventure’, we'll be getting to the heart of the best and brightest new ideas in contemporary culture.

EarlyBird tickets to the first events have just been released:

In 'The World's Edge' novelists Terry Pratchett and AS Byatt and literary critic Terry Eagleton debate the nature of myths and fantasies.

In 'Mind, Madness and Power' psychologist and broadcaster Oliver James, outspoken sociologist Frank Furedi, and clinical psychologist Richard Bentall challenge therapy culture.

And in 'Death of the Hero', American moral philosopher and Einstein Forum director Susan Neiman, former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair, and classical philosopher Angie Hobbs question whether we need new forms of heroism to inspire the modern world.