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Why the World Does Not Exist
Buch von Markus Gabriel
Sprache: Englisch

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Where do we come from? Are we merely a cluster of elementary particles in a gigantic world receptacle? And what does it all mean?

In this highly original new book, the philosopher Markus Gabriel challenges our notion of what exists and what it means to exist. He questions the idea that there is a world that encompasses everything like a container life, the universe, and everything else. This all-inclusive being does not exist and cannot exist. For the world itself is not found in the world. And even when we think about the world, the world about which we think is obviously not identical with the world in which we think. For, as we are thinking about the world, this is only a very small event in the world. Besides this, there are still innumerable other objects and events: rain showers, toothaches and the World Cup. Drawing on the recent history of philosophy, Gabriel asserts that the world cannot exist at all, because it is not found in the world. Yet with the exception of the world, everything else exists; even unicorns on the far side of the moon wearing police uniforms.

Revelling in witty thought experiments, word play, and the courage of provocation, Markus Gabriel demonstrates the necessity of a questioning mind and the role that humour can play in coming to terms with the abyss of human existence.
Where do we come from? Are we merely a cluster of elementary particles in a gigantic world receptacle? And what does it all mean?

In this highly original new book, the philosopher Markus Gabriel challenges our notion of what exists and what it means to exist. He questions the idea that there is a world that encompasses everything like a container life, the universe, and everything else. This all-inclusive being does not exist and cannot exist. For the world itself is not found in the world. And even when we think about the world, the world about which we think is obviously not identical with the world in which we think. For, as we are thinking about the world, this is only a very small event in the world. Besides this, there are still innumerable other objects and events: rain showers, toothaches and the World Cup. Drawing on the recent history of philosophy, Gabriel asserts that the world cannot exist at all, because it is not found in the world. Yet with the exception of the world, everything else exists; even unicorns on the far side of the moon wearing police uniforms.

Revelling in witty thought experiments, word play, and the courage of provocation, Markus Gabriel demonstrates the necessity of a questioning mind and the role that humour can play in coming to terms with the abyss of human existence.
Über den Autor
Markus Gabriel was born in 1980 and studied in Heidelberg, Lisbon and New York. Since 2009 he has held the chair for Epistemology at the University of Bonn and with that is Germany's youngest philosophy professor. He is also the director of the International Center for Philosophy in Bonn.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 200
Inhalt: VI
239 S.
ISBN-13: 9780745687568
ISBN-10: 0745687563
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 1A745687560
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Gabriel, Markus
Übersetzung: Moss, Gregory
Hersteller: Polity Press
John Wiley & Sons
Maße: 223 x 141 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Markus Gabriel
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.06.2015
Gewicht: 0,446 kg
preigu-id: 104966928
Über den Autor
Markus Gabriel was born in 1980 and studied in Heidelberg, Lisbon and New York. Since 2009 he has held the chair for Epistemology at the University of Bonn and with that is Germany's youngest philosophy professor. He is also the director of the International Center for Philosophy in Bonn.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 200
Inhalt: VI
239 S.
ISBN-13: 9780745687568
ISBN-10: 0745687563
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 1A745687560
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Gabriel, Markus
Übersetzung: Moss, Gregory
Hersteller: Polity Press
John Wiley & Sons
Maße: 223 x 141 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Markus Gabriel
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.06.2015
Gewicht: 0,446 kg
preigu-id: 104966928
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