Hating Perfection: A Subtle Search for the Best Possible World - Couverture souple

Williams Far, John F

 
9781591027324: Hating Perfection: A Subtle Search for the Best Possible World
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ISBN 10 : 1591027322 ISBN 13 : 9781591027324
Editeur : Prometheus Books, 2009

Synopsis

Unusual book

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The best heaven and the worst hell are the same place. Travel with author John F. Williams into the jungles of Laos and into a new understanding of existence.

In lively short stories, Hating Perfection shows the everyday world as uncanny, equally strange as the imaginary worlds of Borges or Kafka. This engrossing, strikingly original book invites you to experience your life in a new way.

Hating Perfection weaves its stories together with an elegant logic. Our hateful world—painful, unjust, ruthless, fatal—stands revealed as the best of all possible worlds, flooded everywhere by a perfection both alien and addicting. What we want is different from what we get. But the reason why has a divine splendor.

Stand beside the author for a time, and look in the direction he is looking. Your troubles may still be your troubles, but the world will be more than it was.

Revue de presse

"Astonishing!...Lively, highly original, tightly argued, and a joy to read....An electrifying achievement." -- Hubert Dreyfus, professor of philosophy, University of California, Berkeley

"Illustrates Leonardo's idea that details make perfection, but perfection is not a detail."
-- Dagfinn Føllesdal, Stanford University

"Original, fascinating, highly ingenious, ... and inspiring." -- Gualtiero Piccinini, University of Missouri, St. Louis

"You have added an argument to those used by Leibniz for the claim that this is the best of all possible worlds and one that is more persuasive than his." -- Nelson Pole, Cleveland State University

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Éditeur
Prometheus Books
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1591027322
ISBN 13 
9781591027324
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
359
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9781616148751: Hating Perfection (Revised Edition): A Subtle Search for the Best Possible World

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1616148756 ISBN 13 :  9781616148751
Editeur : Humanity Books, 2013
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