The Rigor of Angels

Resumen del libro

As each of these thinkers shows, every one of us has a fundamentally incomplete picture of the world. But this is to be expected. Only as mortal, finite beings are we able to experience the world in all its richness and breathtaking majesty. We are stranded in a gulf of vast extremes, between the astronomical and the quantum, an abyss of freedom and absolute determinism, and it is in that center where we must make our home. A soaring and lucid reflection on the lives and work of Borges, Heisenberg, and Kant, The Rigor of Angels movingly demonstrates that the mysteries of our place in the world may always loom over not as a threat, but as a reminder of our humble humanity.

Biografía del autor

William Egginton, crítico literario y filósofo, es profesor Decker de Humanidades, catedrático del Departamento de Lenguas y Literaturas Modernas y director del Instituto de Humanidades Alexander Grass de la Universidad Johns Hopkins. Es autor de múltiples libros en los que trata temas de filosofía, religión, literatura e historia, entre otros.