The Book Of Nothingness
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The Book Of Nothing
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Author : John D. Barrow
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-02-15
The Book Of Nothing written by John D. Barrow and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-15 with Mathematics categories.
How do you begin to understand the concept of nothing? Where does it begin and where does it end? From the zeros of the mathematician to the void of the philosophers, from Shakespeare to the empty set, from the ether to the quantum vacuum, from being and nothingness to creatio ex nihilo, there is much ado about nothing at the heart of things. Recent exciting discoveries in astronomy are shown to shed new light on the nature of the vacuum and its dramatic effect upon the explanation of the Universe. This remarkable book ranges over every nook and cranny of nothingness to reveal how the human mind has had to make something of nothing in every field of human enquiry.
The Book Of Nothing
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Author : John D. Barrow
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2009-05-20
The Book Of Nothing written by John D. Barrow and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-20 with Science categories.
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.
The Book Of Nothing
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Author : John D. Barrow
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2001
The Book Of Nothing written by John D. Barrow and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Nothing (Philosophy). categories.
From the zeros of the mathematician to the void of the philosphers, from Shakespeare to the empty set, from the ether to the quantum vacuum, from being and nothingness to creatio ex nihilo, there is much ado about nothing at the heart of things. Discoveries in astronomy are shown to shed new light on the nature of the vacuum and its dramatic effect on the explanation of the Universe.
The Experience Of Nothingness
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Author : Michael Novak
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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The Experience Of Nothingness written by Michael Novak and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Being And Nothingness
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Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1992
Being And Nothingness written by Jean-Paul Sartre and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Philosophy categories.
Sartre explains the theory of existential psychoanalysis in this treatise on human reality.
Philosophers Of Nothingness
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Author : James W. Heisig
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2001-05-01
Philosophers Of Nothingness written by James W. Heisig and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-01 with Philosophy categories.
The past twenty years have seen the publication of numerous translations and commentaries on the principal philosophers of the Kyoto School, but so far no general overview and evaluation of their thought has been available, either in Japanese or in Western languages. James Heisig, a longstanding participant in these efforts, has filled that gap with Philosophers of Nothingness. In this extensive study, the ideas of Nishida Kitaro, Tanabe Hajime, and Nishitani Keiji are presented both as a consistent school of thought in its own right and as a challenge to the Western philosophical tradition to open itself to the original contribution of Japan.
Nothingness And Emptiness
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Author : Steven W. Laycock
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Nothingness And Emptiness written by Steven W. Laycock and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Philosophy categories.
This sustained and distinctively Buddhist challenge to the ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness resolves the incoherence implicit in the Sartrean conception of nothingness by opening to a Buddhist vision of emptiness. Rooted in the insights of Madhyamika dialectic and an articulated meditative (zen) phenomenology, Nothingness and Emptiness uncovers and examines the assumptions that sustain Sartre's early phenomenological ontology and questions his theoretical elaboration of consciousness as "nothingness." Laycock demonstrates that, in addition to a "relative" nothingness (the for-itself) defined against the positivity and plenitude of the in-itself, Sartre's ontology requires, but also repudiates, a conception of "absolute" nothingness (the Buddhist "emptiness"), and is thus, as it stands, logically unstable, perhaps incoherent. The author is not simply critical; he reveals the junctures at which Sartrean ontology appeals for a Buddhist conception of emptiness and offers the needed supplement.
The Power Of Nothingness
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Author : Alexandra David-Néel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
The Power Of Nothingness written by Alexandra David-Néel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The Void Of Nothingness
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Author : Marcel Fraser
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-04-17
The Void Of Nothingness written by Marcel Fraser and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-17 with Philosophy categories.
In "The Void Of Nothingness," the third in a trilogy about journeys, the author asks himself: What am I doing here -- and who is asking in the first place? Looking back on all these inner journeys reveals that he has not arrived anywhere. But that is no surprise. Woe to the one that arrives at his destination. Our universal search for meaning usually shepherds us to religion, but often vaults us on to unforeseen philosophies. The author was born of a Catholic mother and a Jewish father, confirmed a Lutheran, attended Presbyterian Sunday school, and indoctrinated at a fundamentalist Christian summer camp. He held the highest lay position in his church for years, and conducted the service when the pastor was absent. He married both a Catholic and a Jew - not at the same time! He wasn't too concerned about the afterlife either; like all young people, he was immortal. Today, near the end of his life, he is an atheist with an agnostic insurance policy.
A Glimpse Of Nothingness
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Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date : 2014-07-01
A Glimpse Of Nothingness written by Janwillem van de Wetering and has been published by St. Martin's Griffin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In A Glimpse of Nothingness, celebrated mystery novelist Janwillem van de Wetering offers a sequel to his earlier memoir, The Empty Mirror, which concerned the author's experiences at a Zen monastery in Japan in the middle 1960s. Originally published in 1975, A Glimpse of Nothingness chronicles van de Wetering's time at the Moon Springs Hermitage in Maine. The book offers a complete and compelling description of the Zen path pursued by one sensitive Westerner who began his quest by seeking for the sense of it all-and who eventually came to realize at least a part of it. The follow-up to this book is van de Wetering's Afterzen.