Waves and Stones
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A new exploration of our conception of reality, by one of the
world’s most influential philosophersHow do we understand the world
and our place in it? Do our lives consist of a small number of
dramatic turning points, or is there nothing but a series of
gradual changes from infancy to old age? Are political elections
genuinely transformational, or merely arbitrary points along a
shifting cultural timeline? And in physics, how can the
continuities of general relativity coexist with the discontinuities
of quantum theory?In Waves and Stones, Graham Harman shows that
this paradoxical interaction – the question of whether reality is
made up of sudden jumps, or is laid out along a gentle gradient
with no clear divisions between the various things in the world –
permeates every area of human life. What’s more, this paradox is as
old as human thought itself. In exploring how the continuous and
discrete relate to each other, he takes us on a kaleidoscopic
journey from the philosophers of ancient Greece, through the
writings of the great Arab historian Ibn Khaldun, through
architectural and evolutionary theory, the compatibility of
religion with science, and the wave-particle duality of matter.To
explore the relationship between the continuous and the discrete,
Harman shows, is to consider the very fabric of reality. With this
dazzling new book, he proposes a new way of thinking about this
ancient problem, with profound implications for our understanding
of ourselves and the bewilderingly complex world in which we live.
Výber kníh autorov
Penguin Books Ltd ,
Graham Harman
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Penguin Books Ltd,
Graham Harman
Výber kníh vydavateľa
Slovart
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Slovart
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