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The Hampdenshire Wonder

By Beresford, J D

The Hampdenshire Wonder

By Beresford, J D

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"Victor Stott is a giant-headed "supernormal" child mutated - in the womb - by his parents' desire to have a son born without habits. After surveying science, philosophy, history, literature, religion, the best that has been thought and said, the Wonder is dismissive: "So elementary... inchoate... a disjunctive... patchwork." Young Victor's adult interlocutors are shattered by his statements about the nature of the universe and human progress; his philosophy begins with rejecting "the interposing and utterly false concepts of space and time," and ends with the notion that life and all matter are merely "a disease of the ether." Alas, his interlocutors are unable to live without illusions; they reject the Wonder's disenchanting insights"--
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
282
Release Date:
2025-03-04
Publication Date:
2025-03-04
Publisher:
MIT Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0262551411
ISBN13:
9780262551410
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
360 g
Height:
210 cm
Width:
140 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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