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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jim HoltPublisher: WW Norton & Co Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.10cm Weight: 0.277kg ISBN: 9780871403599ISBN 10: 0871403595 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 21 May 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsHolt writes a warm, humane, funny, gripping and poignant tale about Being and Nothingness in the 21st century, a book that every educated person should read. His 'detective story' hides a winsome primer on the big questions of life, which no one--except the most ignorant or self-absorbed--can afford to avoid. --Arlice Davenport Holt has a religious temperament, if not a religion, and he thinks the notion of God is a possible explanation of the mystery of being rather than the reverse or the refusal of one... [He] is an expert juggler of the paradoxes that go with so many kinds of negation...the fun of his quest has to do not only with what he wants to know but with his eagerness for live dialogue. -- Michael Wood The author takes on the origin of everything in this wonderfully ambitious book encompassing mathematics, theology, physics, ethics and more. -- Michael S. Roth The author takes on the origin of everything in this wonderfully ambitious book encompassing mathematics, theology, physics, ethics and more. --Michael S. Roth Author InformationJim Holt, a prominent essayist and critic on philosophy, mathematics, and science, is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review and the New York Review of Books. He lives in New York City. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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