Why the World Does Not Exist - Markus Gabriel

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Auteur(s) : Markus Gabriel

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/06/2015

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 200.0

Expédition : 446

Dimensions : 22.3 x 14.1 x 2.7

ISBN : 0745687563

Résumé :

Thinking 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 237

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Biographie:
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....

Sommaire:

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...