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Williams, John F.

 
9781616148751: Hating Perfection (Revised Edition): A Subtle Search for the Best Possible World
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ISBN 10: 1616148756 ISBN 13: 9781616148751
Editorial: Humanity Books, 2013

Sinopsis

The best heaven and the worst hell are the same place. Travel with author John F. Williams into the jungles of Laos and into a new understanding of existence. 

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.

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Acerca del autor

John F. Williams, now retired, is a successful, independent venture capitalist. He has traveled widely and lived for ten years in the Far East.

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Editorial
Humanity Books
Año de publicación
2013
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1616148756
ISBN 13 
9781616148751
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
396
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