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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Pain And Being: From the First Wound to the Human MindWhat if pain were not an accident of life but the first movement of existence itself?Pain And Being is a work of speculative phenomenology that begins where most philosophy ends, in the experience of suffering. Muhammad Taha Alam proposes that pain is not a defect within Being but its very origin. It is the first self-affection of reality, the moment when existence awakens from neutrality and becomes aware of itself.From this premise unfolds a complete metaphysical vision. The book traces the journey of Being from the silence of Non-Being to the emergence of matter, life, consciousness, and ethical awareness. Each stage of existence is seen as a transformation of the original wound that gave rise to reality. Through this vision, compassion and understanding are no longer sentimental virtues but metaphysical acts, expressions of the universe's own attempt to heal itself through consciousness.Written in luminous and meditative prose, Pain And Being bridges philosophy, spirituality, and phenomenology. It speaks to readers who seek a deeper understanding of existence and of the strange relationship between pain and awakening. This book invites the reader to look beyond suffering as misfortune and to see it instead as the pulse of Being, the fracture through which light first appeared and through which the human mind still remembers its origin. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Fathers and SonsPhilosophy and the Myth of Inheritance Muhammad Taha AlamPhilosophy has long been told as a family romance: fathers and sons, masters and disciples, rebels overthrowing their teachers.Plato against Aristotle, Kant against Fichte, Hegel against Marx-the lineage repeats, always male, always patrilineal. But what if this drama of patricide is not the truth, but a myth that conceals as much as it reveals?In Fathers and Sons: Philosophy and the Myth of Inheritance, Muhammad Taha Alam uncovers the hidden continuities that run beneath philosophy's most famous quarrels. Instead of murders, he finds metamorphoses; instead of ruptures, inheritances disguised as rebellion. Aristotle carries Plato inside him, Fichte radicalizes Kant, Marx translates Hegel into the language of industry.Yet the book goes further. It exposes how this myth of lineage has excluded women, queer thinkers, and outsiders from philosophy's story. Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Iris Murdoch, Michel Foucault - their contributions are remembered as appendices to men, when in truth they represent a different inheritance altogether. Queer disavowal, feminist transformation, postcolonial voices - these are not interruptions but fertile reimaginings of philosophy itself.Provocative and illuminating, this book challenges the myth of patricide and opens a more plural vision of philosophy - where lineage is tangled, where voices outside the family romance become central, and where thinking is not an act of killing but of renewal. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What if life is not the exception but the rule?For centuries, science has struggled to define life. We know a tree is alive and a stone is not, yet every attempt at a clear definition collapses under scrutiny. Viruses blur the line. Machines begin to surprise us with creativity. Earth regulates its climate and oceans as though it were a body. The universe itself generates novelty across billions of years.In The Blindness of Scale: Why Life Is All That Exists, Muhammad Taha Alam argues that life is not a one-time accident but a recurring principle. At every scale of complexity, from molecules to cells, from organisms to Gaia, from planets to the cosmos, the spark of life returns. What blinds us to this truth is scale itself. Molecules cannot see the life of a cell. Cells cannot see the life of an organism. We cannot easily see the life of Earth or the universe.Drawing on science, philosophy, and myth, this book unfolds a radical vision: we live not in a dead universe punctuated by accidents of life, but in a living universe where life is the underlying reality.The journey begins with blindness, moves through the surprising vitality of machines, explores Gaia as a planetary body, expands to the living cosmos, and ends with an ethic of scale that calls us to humility and responsibility.This is not a book about philosophy alone. It is a book about belonging. To see life at all scales is to rediscover our place in a living whole, and to learn to live as if belonging truly matters. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. From the author of Pain and Being and The Ontology of Pain returns a work of rare philosophical intensity: The Tyranny of Fictions: Civilization and the Eclipse of Being.This book is not merely a critique of contemporary civilization. It is an ontological excavation.Where most philosophy begins with reason, politics, or culture, Alam begins with pain. In his earlier works, he advanced a radical thesis: that pain is not an accident within existence but its first form of awareness, that Being itself emerges through disturbance, tension, and vulnerability. Pain, in this vision, is not secondary to life; it is its original disclosure. From this insight arose a new philosophical framework, an ontology in which suffering is not a defect to be eliminated but the primordial condition through which consciousness, meaning, and structure come into being.The Tyranny of Fictions carries this inquiry into the architecture of civilization itself.Alam asks a devastating question: what happens when the structures created to contain pain forget why they exist?His answer is both sweeping and precise. Modern domination, he argues, does not originate in cruelty or conspiracy but in forgetting. The symbolic constructions humanity invented to survive vulnerability - order, progress, value, identity, representation - have hardened into autonomous systems. These fictions, once protective, now operate blindly. They reproduce themselves without reflection. They persist without remembrance of their origin in suffering.Civilization, Alam shows, has entered the age of the autonomous structure.Drawing together ontology, critical realism, political economy, and metaphysical analysis, the book traces how imagination becomes institution, how meaning solidifies into mechanism, and how human creations acquire causal power over their creators. The state, the market, bureaucracy, and technological networks emerge not simply as social arrangements but as metaphysical formations, structures that act without consciousness, perpetuating harm through function rather than intent.At the heart of Alam's argument lies his most original contribution: the extension of the ontology of pain into a theory of civilization. Pain, once externalized and organized through symbolic systems, does not disappear. It becomes abstracted, distributed, and hidden. Ethics becomes administration. Meaning becomes data. Life becomes procedure. Humanity finds itself enclosed within its own creations, alienated not only socially but ontologically, separated from Being itself.Yet this is not a book of despair.Against fatalism, Alam introduces the possibility of structural consciousness: the recovery of reflection within function, the remembrance of origin within mechanism. Liberation, he argues, does not require the destruction of civilization but its recollection. To recognize that every structure was once a fiction is to reopen the space of freedom.Written in a distinctive philosophical literary style, precise, lyrical, and uncompromising, The Tyranny of Fictions speaks to readers who sense that something fundamental has gone wrong with the modern world yet refuse shallow explanations.This is not merely a critique of power or technology. It is a meditation on existence itself.A profound meditation on Being.A daring ontology of pain.A necessary reckoning with civilization.This book does not offer comfort.It offers clarity. Muhammad Taha Alam's The Tyranny of Fictions reveals how human-made systems came to rule life itself, and calls us back to Being through a bold philosophy of pain, memory, and structural awakening. This item is printed on de Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. From the author of Pain and Being and The Ontology of Pain returns a work of rare philosophical intensity: The Tyranny of Fictions: Civilization and the Eclipse of Being.This book is not merely a critique of contemporary civilization. It is an ontological excavation.Where most philosophy begins with reason, politics, or culture, Alam begins with pain. In his earlier works, he advanced a radical thesis: that pain is not an accident within existence but its first form of awareness, that Being itself emerges through disturbance, tension, and vulnerability. Pain, in this vision, is not secondary to life; it is its original disclosure. From this insight arose a new philosophical framework, an ontology in which suffering is not a defect to be eliminated but the primordial condition through which consciousness, meaning, and structure come into being.The Tyranny of Fictions carries this inquiry into the architecture of civilization itself.Alam asks a devastating question: what happens when the structures created to contain pain forget why they exist?His answer is both sweeping and precise. Modern domination, he argues, does not originate in cruelty or conspiracy but in forgetting. The symbolic constructions humanity invented to survive vulnerability - order, progress, value, identity, representation - have hardened into autonomous systems. These fictions, once protective, now operate blindly. They reproduce themselves without reflection. They persist without remembrance of their origin in suffering.Civilization, Alam shows, has entered the age of the autonomous structure.Drawing together ontology, critical realism, political economy, and metaphysical analysis, the book traces how imagination becomes institution, how meaning solidifies into mechanism, and how human creations acquire causal power over their creators. The state, the market, bureaucracy, and technological networks emerge not simply as social arrangements but as metaphysical formations, structures that act without consciousness, perpetuating harm through function rather than intent.At the heart of Alam's argument lies his most original contribution: the extension of the ontology of pain into a theory of civilization. Pain, once externalized and organized through symbolic systems, does not disappear. It becomes abstracted, distributed, and hidden. Ethics becomes administration. Meaning becomes data. Life becomes procedure. Humanity finds itself enclosed within its own creations, alienated not only socially but ontologically, separated from Being itself.Yet this is not a book of despair.Against fatalism, Alam introduces the possibility of structural consciousness: the recovery of reflection within function, the remembrance of origin within mechanism. Liberation, he argues, does not require the destruction of civilization but its recollection. To recognize that every structure was once a fiction is to reopen the space of freedom.Written in a distinctive philosophical literary style, precise, lyrical, and uncompromising, The Tyranny of Fictions speaks to readers who sense that something fundamental has gone wrong with the modern world yet refuse shallow explanations.This is not merely a critique of power or technology. It is a meditation on existence itself.A profound meditation on Being.A daring ontology of pain.A necessary reckoning with civilization.This book does not offer comfort.It offers clarity. Muhammad Taha Alam's The Tyranny of Fictions reveals how human-made systems came to rule life itself, and calls us back to Being through a bold philosophy of pain, memory, and structural awakening. This item is printed on de Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. From the author of Pain and Being and The Ontology of Pain returns a work of rare philosophical intensity: The Tyranny of Fictions: Civilization and the Eclipse of Being.This book is not merely a critique of contemporary civilization. It is an ontological excavation.Where most philosophy begins with reason, politics, or culture, Alam begins with pain. In his earlier works, he advanced a radical thesis: that pain is not an accident within existence but its first form of awareness, that Being itself emerges through disturbance, tension, and vulnerability. Pain, in this vision, is not secondary to life; it is its original disclosure. From this insight arose a new philosophical framework, an ontology in which suffering is not a defect to be eliminated but the primordial condition through which consciousness, meaning, and structure come into being.The Tyranny of Fictions carries this inquiry into the architecture of civilization itself.Alam asks a devastating question: what happens when the structures created to contain pain forget why they exist?His answer is both sweeping and precise. Modern domination, he argues, does not originate in cruelty or conspiracy but in forgetting. The symbolic constructions humanity invented to survive vulnerability - order, progress, value, identity, representation - have hardened into autonomous systems. These fictions, once protective, now operate blindly. They reproduce themselves without reflection. They persist without remembrance of their origin in suffering.Civilization, Alam shows, has entered the age of the autonomous structure.Drawing together ontology, critical realism, political economy, and metaphysical analysis, the book traces how imagination becomes institution, how meaning solidifies into mechanism, and how human creations acquire causal power over their creators. The state, the market, bureaucracy, and technological networks emerge not simply as social arrangements but as metaphysical formations, structures that act without consciousness, perpetuating harm through function rather than intent.At the heart of Alam's argument lies his most original contribution: the extension of the ontology of pain into a theory of civilization. Pain, once externalized and organized through symbolic systems, does not disappear. It becomes abstracted, distributed, and hidden. Ethics becomes administration. Meaning becomes data. Life becomes procedure. Humanity finds itself enclosed within its own creations, alienated not only socially but ontologically, separated from Being itself.Yet this is not a book of despair.Against fatalism, Alam introduces the possibility of structural consciousness: the recovery of reflection within function, the remembrance of origin within mechanism. Liberation, he argues, does not require the destruction of civilization but its recollection. To recognize that every structure was once a fiction is to reopen the space of freedom.Written in a distinctive philosophical literary style, precise, lyrical, and uncompromising, The Tyranny of Fictions speaks to readers who sense that something fundamental has gone wrong with the modern world yet refuse shallow explanations.This is not merely a critique of power or technology. It is a meditation on existence itself.A profound meditation on Being.A daring ontology of pain.A necessary reckoning with civilization.This book does not offer comfort.It offers clarity. Muhammad Taha Alam's The Tyranny of Fictions reveals how human-made systems came to rule life itself, and calls us back to Being through a bold philosophy of pain, memory, and structural awakening. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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