Jim Holt: Why Does the World Exist?

Cover: 9781846682452 | Why Does the World Exist? | One Man's Quest for the Big Answer | Holt

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'Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?' remains the most curious and most enduring of all metaphysical mysteries. Moving away from the narrower paths of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking, the celebrated essayist Jim Holt now enters this fascinating debate with his broad, lively and deeply informed narrative that traces all our efforts to grasp the origins of the universe.With sly humour and a highly original personal approach Holt takes on the role of cosmological detective. Suggesting that we might have been too narrow in limiting our suspects to God and the Big Bang, he tracks down, among others, an eccentric Oxford philosopher, a Nobel Laureate physicist, a French Buddhist monk, and John Updike just before he died, to pursue this cosmic puzzle from every angle. As he pieces together a solution - while offering useful insights into time, consciousness, and eternity - he sheds fascinating new light on the meaning of existence.A New York Times bestseller on first publication, this new paperback edition provides a much-needed new take on history's greatest conundrum, in the vein of previous bestsellers like Michael Brooks' 13 Things that Don't Make Sense.

Über den Autor

Jim Holt is a prominent essayist and critic on philosophy, mathematics, and science. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, New York Review of Books and Prospect magazine. He lives in New York City. He is the author of Stop Me If You've Heard This [9781846681097] also published by Profile.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Fachbereich:	Populäre Darstellungen
Genre:	Philosophie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	307 S.
ISBN-13:	9781846682452
ISBN-10:	1846682452
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Holt, Jim
Hersteller:	Profile Books Ltd
Maße:	198 x 128 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Jim Holt
Erscheinungsdatum:	13.06.2013
Gewicht:	0,264 kg

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