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The Certainties

2020-08-04 Fiction
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Release : 2020-08-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Certainties by : Aislinn Hunter

Download or read book The Certainties written by Aislinn Hunter. This book was released on 2020-08-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid, moving novel reminiscent of Anthony Doerr and Michael Ondaatje, about the entwined fates of two very different refugees. In 1940, as the shadow of war lengthens over Europe, three mysterious travelers enter a village in Spain. They have the appearance of Parisian intellectuals, but the trio of two men and a woman are starving and exhausted from crossing illegally through the Pyrenees. Their story, told over a period of 48 tense hours, is narrated by one of the men, who slowly accepts his unthinkable fate. In a voice despairing and elegant, he calmly considers what he should do, and weighs what any one life means. As he does so, his attention is caught by a five-year-old named Pia who wanders near his cafe table. To Pia he begins to address all that he thinks and feels in his final hours--envisioning a rich future life for her that both reflects and contrasts with his own. Meanwhile, in the 1980s, a woman named Pia seeks solitude on a remote island in the Atlantic, where she works at an inn and reflects on her chaotic childhood. As Pia's story begins, a raging storm engulfs the island and a boat flounders offshore. Pia and her fellow islanders rush to help--and past and present calamities collide. By turns elegiac and heart-pounding, a love letter in the guise of a song of despair, The Certainties is a moving and transformative blend of historical and speculative fiction--a novel that shows us what it means to bear witness, and to attend to those who seek refuge, past and present.

The Certainties of Geology

1840 Bible and geology
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Release : 1840
Genre : Bible and geology
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Book Synopsis The Certainties of Geology by : William Sidney Gibson

Download or read book The Certainties of Geology written by William Sidney Gibson. This book was released on 1840. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Certainty of Uncertainty

2018-08-23 Religion
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Release : 2018-08-23
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Certainty of Uncertainty by : Mark A. Schaefer

Download or read book The Certainty of Uncertainty written by Mark A. Schaefer. This book was released on 2018-08-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is full of people who are very certain--in politics, in religion, in all manner of things. In addition, political, religious, and social organizations are marketing certainty as a cure all to all life's problems. But is such certainty possible? Or even good? The Certainty of Uncertainty explores the question of certainty by looking at the reasons human beings crave certainty and the religious responses we frequently fashion to help meet that need. The book takes an in-depth view of religion, language, our senses, our science, and our world to explore the inescapable uncertainties they reveal. We find that the certainty we crave does not exist. As we reflect on the unavoidable uncertainties in our world, we come to understand that letting go of certainty is not only necessary, it's beneficial. For, in embracing doubt and uncertainty, we find a more meaningful and courageous religious faith, a deeper encounter with mystery, and a way to build strong relationships across religious and philosophical lines. In The Certainty of Uncertainty, we see that embracing our belief systems with humility and uncertainty can be transformative for ourselves and for our world.

Negative Certainties

2020-10-28 Philosophy
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Release : 2020-10-28
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Negative Certainties by : Jean-Luc Marion

Download or read book Negative Certainties written by Jean-Luc Marion. This book was released on 2020-10-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, Jean-Luc Marion's groundbreaking philosophy of human uncertainty. In Negative Certainties, renowned philosopher Jean-Luc Marion challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions we have developed about knowledge: that it is categorical, predicative, and positive. Following Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger, he looks toward our finitude and the limits of our reason. He asks an astonishingly simple—but profoundly provocative—question in order to open up an entirely new way of thinking about knowledge: Isn’t our uncertainty, our finitude, and rational limitations, one of the few things we can be certain about? Marion shows how the assumption of knowledge as positive demands a reductive epistemology that disregards immeasurable or disorderly phenomena. He shows that we have experiences every day that have no identifiable causes or predictable reasons and that these constitute a very real knowledge—a knowledge of the limits of what can be known. Establishing this “negative certainty,” Marion applies it to four aporias, or issues of certain uncertainty: the definition of man; the nature of God; the unconditionality of the gift; and the unpredictability of events. Translated for the first time into English, Negative Certainties is an invigorating work of epistemological inquiry that will take a central place in Marion’s oeuvre.

Mathematics, the Loss of Certainty

2009 Mathematics
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Release : 2009
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Synopsis Mathematics, the Loss of Certainty by : Morris Kline

Download or read book Mathematics, the Loss of Certainty written by Morris Kline. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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