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Author: HJ Alden Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1329741315 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 106
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Set 250 years in the future, this is the story of John, who has no last name. The book follows him as he embraces homelessness in pursuit of knowledge, chronicling his adventures and his many meetings with fascinating people on his way to a dreadful encounter with the potential to set him free.
Author: HJ Alden Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1329741315 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 106
Book Description
Set 250 years in the future, this is the story of John, who has no last name. The book follows him as he embraces homelessness in pursuit of knowledge, chronicling his adventures and his many meetings with fascinating people on his way to a dreadful encounter with the potential to set him free.
Author: Meghan Vicks Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1501307231 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 176
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The concept of nothing was an enduring concern of the 20th century. As Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre each positioned nothing as inseparable from the human condition and essential to the creation or operation of human existence, as Jacques Derrida demonstrated how all structures are built upon a nothing within the structure, and as mathematicians argued that zero – the number that is also not a number – allows for the creation of our modern mathematical system, Narratives of Nothing in 20th-Century Literature suggests that nothing itself enables the act of narration. Focusing on the literary works of Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, and Victor Pelevin, Meghan Vicks traces how and why these writers give narrative form to nothing, demonstrating that nothing is essential to the creation of narrative – that is, how our perceptions are conditioned, how we make meaning (or madness) out of the stuff of our existence, how we craft our knowable selves, and how we exist in language.
Author: Eliphas Levi Publisher: Weiser Books ISBN: 9781609255510 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 192
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This is the first part of Eliphas Levi's last great descourse on the mysteries of occultism that was continued and concluded in The Great Secret. In it, Levi examines with great precision and insight the inner meanings of Qabalism and their relationship to the occult sciences. Part One is a commentary on the Spihra Dzeniuta by Simeon BenJochal, which includes an examination of the affinities between Qabalism and Freemasonry. Part Two pursues the correspondences between Qabalism, Numerology and the Tarot. This edition includes an appendix by Papus (Dr. Gerard Encausse) summarizing Levi's doctrines and teachings and supplying some fascinating information on some of the master's many disciples.
Author: Clint Miller Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443806242 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 159
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The Book of Change presents a foundational form of philosophy in an original form of symmetrical verse, translating fundamental logico-philosophical truths into English. The work is a synthesis of symbolic logic and poetry, unlocking the underlying secrets of the universe, line by line, through two-sided imagery. The scope of the book is truly universal. Starting from the world’s Beginning, the nature of reality is laid out in lines of logic, tracing a lineage of reason through topics as diverse as duality, causality, probability, number theory, physics, ethics, statistics, politics, and, of course, religion. The Book of Change attempts to impart a unifying understanding of the world’s essence to any reader. Profound mathematical and scientific truths are simplified into images painted with poetry. A new system of thought lies open, now, to the public.
Author: John D. Barrow Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1409028801 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 368
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This is a book about universes. It tells a story that revolves around a single extraordinary fact: that Albert Einstein's famous theory of relativity describes a series of entire universes. Not many solutions to Einstein's tantalising universe equations have ever been found, but those that have are all remarkable. Some describe universes that expand in size, while others contract. Some rotate like a top, while others are chaotically unpredictable. Some are perfectly smooth, while others are lumpy. Some permit time travel into the past. Only a few allow life to evolve within them; the rest, if they exist, remain unknown and unknowable to conscious minds. Here, in The Book of Universes, we are confronted with the most fantastic and far-reaching speculations within the entire realm of science.
Author: C. D. Sebastian Publisher: Springer ISBN: 8132236467 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 181
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This book explores ‘nothingness’, the negative way found in Buddhist and Christian traditions, with a focused and comparative approach. It examines the works of Nagarjuna (c. 150 CE), a Buddhist monk, philosopher and one of the greatest thinkers of classical India, and those of John of the Cross (1542-1591), a Carmelite monk, outstanding Spanish poet, and one of the greatest mystical theologians. The conception of nothingness in both the thinkers points to a paradox of linguistic transcendence and provides a novel insight into via negativa. This is the first full-length work comparing nothingness (emptiness) in Nagarjuna (Mahayana Buddhism) and John of the Cross (Christianity) in any language. It augments the comparative approach found in Buddhist-Christian comparative philosophy and theology. This book is of especial interest to academics of Buddhist and Christian studies searching for avenues for intellectual dialogue.
Author: John D. Barrow Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307554813 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 384
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What conceptual blind spot kept the ancient Greeks (unlike the Indians and Maya) from developing a concept of zero? Why did St. Augustine equate nothingness with the Devil? What tortuous means did 17th-century scientists employ in their attempts to create a vacuum? And why do contemporary quantum physicists believe that the void is actually seething with subatomic activity? You’ll find the answers in this dizzyingly erudite and elegantly explained book by the English cosmologist John D. Barrow. Ranging through mathematics, theology, philosophy, literature, particle physics, and cosmology, The Book of Nothing explores the enduring hold that vacuity has exercised on the human imagination. Combining high-wire speculation with a wealth of reference that takes in Freddy Mercury and Shakespeare alongside Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking, the result is a fascinating excursion to the vanishing point of our knowledge.
Author: HJ Alden
Author: HJ Alden
Author: Meghan Vicks
Author: Eliphas Levi
Author: Clint Miller
Author: Francis Procter
Author: John D. Barrow
Author: C. D. Sebastian
Author: John D. Barrow
Author: John D. Barrow
Author: John Mason Good