Spinoza's Dream: On Nature and Meaning

by David Weissman

Meaning (significance) and nature are this book's principal topics. They seem an odd couple, like raisins and numbers, though they elide when meanings of a global sort--ideologies and religions, for example--promote ontologies that subordinate nature. Setting one against the other makes reality contentious. It signifies workmates and a coal face to miners, gluons to physicists, prayer and redemption to priests. Are there many realities, or many...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110477920
• ISBN13: 9783110477924
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"