Subtle Gravity - Softcover

Praeg, Leonhard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1869144767 ISBN 13: 9781869144760

Verlag: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

What is addiction? Who is an addict, and why? Are we only addicted to substances, or also to patterns of thought: self-loathing, doubt, obsessive thinking, and perhaps even silence?

Subtle Gravity, like Praeg's first novel, Imitation, departs from the assumption that we are all addicts. We all struggle with being alone. Taking as a point of departure an extreme form of addiction - a commitment to the silence we know precedes the violence that language imposes on us - Subtle Gravity maps a possible way back from addiction through a playful engagement with Buddhism, Christian mysticism and, of course, Star Wars.

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Leonhard Praeg is Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He lives in Makhanda in the Eastern Cape, from where he works as a freelance researcher, editor, writer, and yoga nidra teacher. Subtle Gravity is his second novel.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1869144767
• ISBN 13: 9781869144760
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande