The Human Touch
Our Part in the Creation of a Universe
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Word Count
128,000 words, Guess
Page Count
512 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7933257M
- ISBN-139780805081480
- ISBN-100805081488
- OCLC Control Number70232387
- OCLC Control Numberhumantouchourpar00fray
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2006048204
- Goodreads99776
- LibraryThing1603213
Classifications
- LCCBD450 .F724 2007
Description
What do we really know? What are we in relation to the world around us? Playwright and novelist Frayn takes on the great questions of his career--and of our lives. Humankind, scientists agree, is an insignificant speck in the impersonal vastness of the universe. But what would that universe be like if we were not here to say something about it? Would there be numbers if there were no one to count them? With wit, charm, and brilliance, this epic work of philosophy sets out to make sense of our place in the scheme of things. Our contact with the world around us, Michael Frayn shows, is always fleeting and indeterminate, yet we have nevertheless had to fashion a comprehensible universe in which action is possible. But how do we distinguish our subjective experience from what is objectively true and knowable?--From publisher description.
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