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Raymond Tallis - Of Time and Lamentation - 9781911116219 - V9781911116219
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Of Time and Lamentation

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Description for Of Time and Lamentation Book. Raymond Tallis goes in search of the nature and meaning of time and argues with characteristic fearlessness that our temporal lives are ill-served by the mathematized account of time presented by physics. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Time's mysteries seem to resist comprehension and what remains, once the familiar metaphors are stripped away, can stretch even the most profound philosopher. In Of Time and Lamentation, Raymond Tallis rises to this challenge and explores the nature and meaning of time and how best to understand it. The culmination of some twenty years of thinking, writing and wondering about (and within) time, it is a bold, original and thought-provoking work. With characteristic fearlessness, Tallis seeks to reclaim time from the jaws of physics. For most of us, time is composed of mornings, afternoons and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Agenda Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781911116219
SKU
V9781911116219
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99-1

About Raymond Tallis
Raymond Tallis trained in medicine at Oxford University and at St Thomas' Hospital London before becoming Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences for his research in clinical neuroscience and he has played a key role in developing guidelines for the care of stroke patients in the ... Read more

Reviews for Of Time and Lamentation
There is hardly a thinking person who has not been struck, at some stage in life, by the deep mystery of time. How is it that things come into being and then pass away? What is a moment, and what flows as the moments succeed each other? What is it to exist in time, and is time another dimension, like ... Read more

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