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Hating Perfection
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Description
In lively short stories, Hating Perfection shows the everyday world as uncanny, equally strange as the imaginary worlds of Borges or Kafka. This engrossing, strikingly original book invites you to experience your life in a new way.
Hating Perfection weaves its stories together with an elegant logic. Our hateful world-painful, unjust, ruthless, fatal-stands revealed as the best of all possible worlds, flooded everywhere by a perfection both alien and addicting. What we want is different from what we get. But the reason why has a divine splendor.
In this revised edition, Mr. Williams has added a postscript that addresses the well-known philosopher's paradox of the Chinese room. The author explains for the first time how we know that such a room as usually described would not have consciousness.
Stand beside Mr. Williams for a time, and look in the direction he is looking. Your troubles may still be your troubles, but the world will be more than it was.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
396
Release Date:
2013-05-14
Publication Date:
2013-05-14
Publisher:
Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1616148756
ISBN13:
9781616148751
Weight:
263 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
6 cm
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