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The human touch : our part in the creation of a universe / Michael Frayn.
- Title
- The human touch : our part in the creation of a universe / Michael Frayn.
- Author
- Frayn, Michael
- Publication
- New York : Metropolitan Books, 2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | BD450 .F724 2007 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 505 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- What do we really know? What are we in relation to the world around us? Playwright and novelist Frayn takes on the great questions of his career--and of our lives. Humankind, scientists agree, is an insignificant speck in the impersonal vastness of the universe. But what would that universe be like if we were not here to say something about it? Would there be numbers if there were no one to count them? With wit, charm, and brilliance, this epic work of philosophy sets out to make sense of our place in the scheme of things. Our contact with the world around us, Michael Frayn shows, is always fleeting and indeterminate, yet we have nevertheless had to fashion a comprehensible universe in which action is possible. But how do we distinguish our subjective experience from what is objectively true and knowable?--From publisher description.
- Subject
- Note
- "Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2006 by Faber and Faber"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes biographical references (p. 423-483) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0805081488 (hbk.)
- 9780805081480
- LCCN
- ^^2006048204
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library