Metaphysical Horror

Name: Metaphysical Horror
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ISBN: 9780226450551

ISBN-10: 0226450554

ISBN-13: 9780226450551

Edition: 2001

Authors: Leszek Kolakowski, Agnieszka Kolakowska

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For over a century, philosophers have argued that philosophy is impossible or useless, or both. Although the basic notion dates back to the days of Socrates, there is still heated disagreement about the nature of truth, reality, knowledge, the good, and God. This may make little practical difference to our lives, but it leaves us with a feeling of radical uncertainty, a feeling described by Kolakowski as "metaphysical horror." "The horror is this," he says, "if nothing truly exists except the Absolute, the Absolute is nothing; if nothing truly exists except myself, I am nothing." The aim of this book, for Kolakowski, is finding a way out of this seeming dead end. In a trenchant analysis…

Book details

List price: $17.50
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 4.25" wide x 7.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English



Philosophy and Philosophers


Philosophy's Self-Martyrdom ...


... And its Self-Derision


On Jaspers (1)


Philosophy's Survival


On What Is Real


Cartesian Dreams: Recycling the Cogito (1)


Alibi: The Curse of Time


The Absolute (1)


The Absolute (2)


Divine Persons and Unpersons: Is God Good? (Cruor Dei)


Damascius and Two Kinds of Nothingness


Divine Nothingness in Christianity


On All Possible Languages (1)


Recycling the Cogito (2)


On Husserl


On Merleau-Ponty


The Ego as a Quasi-Absolute


De-Cartesianization


On Spinoza


On Jaspers (2)


Leibniz and All Possible Worlds


On Creation, Divine and Human


The Alter-Ego


On All Possible Languages (2)


Reading the World