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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Markus Gabriel , Gregory MossPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Polity Press Dimensions: Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.80cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780745687568ISBN 10: 0745687563 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 19 June 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsThinking Philosophy Anew 1 Appearance and Being 2 New Realism 5 The Plurality of Worlds 8 Less than Nothing 11 I What is this Actually: the World? 16 You and the Universe 21 Materialism 28 “The World is Everything that is the Case” 32 Constructivism 38 Philosophers and Physicists 44 II What is Existence? 50 The Super-Object 53 Monism, Dualism, Pluralism 56 Absolute and Relative Differences 61 Fields of Sense 65 III Why the World Does Not Exist 73 The Super-Thought 78 Nihilism and Non-Existence 81 The External and the Internal World 91 Why the World Does Not Exist IV The Worldview of Natural Science 99 Naturalism 106 Monism 111 The Book of the World 115 Subjective Truths 126 Holzwege 131 Science and Art 137 V The Meaning of Religion 146 Fetishism 154 The Infinite 162 Religion and the Search for Meaning 168 The Function of God 178 VI The Meaning of Art 184 Ambivalences 186 On Sense and Reference 190 The Demon of Analogy 194 Reflexivity 197 Diversity 204 VII Closing Credits: Television 209 A Show about Nothing 212 The Senses . . . 215 . . . and the Meaning of Life 220 Notes 222 Glossary 231 Index of Names 237ReviewsA majestic thought experiment Slavoj i ek Imagine a philosopher. This philosopher has the verve and pop-culture curiosity of Slavoj Zizek; Graham Priest's comfort with unresolved ambiguity; the transparent prose of John Gray; and Martin Heidegger's nose for the faint scent of being. Your imagined thinker is Markus Gabriel, and his book is Why the World Does Not Exist. Sydney Morning Herald The world might not exist, but Markus Gabriel clearly does, and his fresh, buoyant and bracing intelligence is evidenced on every page of this compelling new book. It is a rare gift to be able to philosophize from first principles in a way that is neither patronizingly derivative nor technically arcane and in a manner that is accessible to the general reader. But Gabriel possesses that gift in bucketloads. Simon Critchley, New School for Social Research Gabriel has written a gripping thriller, which is of course what all good philosophy should be. Die Literarische Welt Markus Gabriel shows with great verve how to tackle fundamental philosophical questions, without being overly academic or dumbing down his subject matter. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung With great wit and intellectual provocation, Markus Gabriel explores the perennial questions of humanity. Der Spiegel A majestic thought experiment Slavoj  i ek Imagine a philosopher. This philosopher has the verve and pop-culture curiosity of Slavoj Zizek; Graham Priest's comfort with unresolved ambiguity; the transparent prose of John Gray; and Martin Heidegger's? nose for the faint scent of being. Your imagined thinker is Markus Gabriel, and his book is Why the World Does Not Exist. Sydney Morning Herald The world might not exist, but Markus Gabriel clearly does, and his fresh, buoyant and bracing intelligence is evidenced on every page of this compelling new book. It is a rare gift to be able to philosophize from first principles in a way that is neither patronizingly derivative nor technically arcane and in a manner that is accessible to the general reader. But Gabriel possesses that gift in bucketloads. Simon Critchley, New School for Social Research Gabriel has written a gripping thriller, which is of course what all good philosophy should be. Die Literarische Welt Markus Gabriel shows with great verve how to tackle fundamental philosophical questions, without being overly academic or dumbing down his subject matter. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung With great wit and intellectual provocation, Markus Gabriel explores the perennial questions of humanity. Der Spiegel This delightful book, translated by Gregory Moss, upholds Wittgenstein's remark that 'whatever can be said at all can be said clearly'. The Guardian Author InformationMarkus 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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