Book description
The driving cultural force of that form of life we call 'modern' is the desire to make the world controllable. Yet it is only in encountering the uncontrollable that we really experience the world - only then do we feel touched, moved and alive. A world that is fully known,…
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Brilliant and eye-opening. This book shows how consciousness works imaginatively in a larger context, as an encounter with world.
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