The Rigor of Angels

Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

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<b>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>AND <i>NEW YORKER</i> BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos, the true limits of the mind—and each in their own way uncovered a revelatory truth about our place in the world<br><br>“[A] mind-expanding book. . . . Elegantly written.” —<i>The New York Times</i><br><br>“A remarkable synthesis of the thoughts, ideas, and discoveries of three of the greatest minds that our species has produced.” —John Banville, <i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br><br>Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak. But the breakdown that followed illuminated an incontrovertible truth—that love is necessarily imbued with loss, that the one doesn’t exist without the other. German physicist Werner Heisenberg was fighting with the scientific establishment on the meaning of the quantum realm’s absurdity when he had his own epiphany—that there is no such thing as a complete, perfect description of reality. Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant pushed the assumptions of human reason to their mind-bending conclusions, but emerged with an idea that crowned a towering philosophical system—that the human mind has fundamental limits, and those limits undergird both our greatest achievements as well as our missteps.<br><br>Through fiction, science, and philosophy, the work of these three thinkers coalesced around the powerful, haunting fact that there is an irreconcilable difference between reality “out there” and reality as we experience it. Out of this profound truth comes a multitude of galvanizing ideas: the notion of selfhood, free will, and purpose in human life; the roots of morality, aesthetics, and reason; and the origins and nature of the cosmos itself. <br><br>As each of these thinkers shows, every one of us has a fundamentally incomplete picture of the world. But this is to be expecte

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EAN

9780593315071

Sprache

Englisch

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Taschenbuch

Maße

202 x 129 x 21 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House LLC US