ISBN: 9798199435949 - to exist is to differ: a dialogue in eleven movements (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A man is dying on a table, and a doctor has ninety seconds to decide what he is - not who, but what: a bleed or a clot, two diagnoses that demand opposite hands. He cuts before he knows he has chosen. The patient lives. And a question opens that takes eleven movements to follow to its end: what was the doctor, in the moment of the cut, when he acted before he understood To Exist Is to Differ is a philosophical dialogue between two voices - one that stays close to the body, the bedside, the cost of a single decision, and one that follows where each case leads when it is carried past the room. Together they pursue a single idea to its limit: that to exist is to hold a distinction open against everything one is not, and to hold it at a cost that is paid continuously, until it can no longer be paid.From this one principle the book moves outward - through what a living cell refuses every second to stay alive, through the stroke that leaves a person intact and yet no longer themselves, through why no one can ever see themselves whole, through love as a circuit drawn across two bodies, through time as something a life makes rather than receives, through the place where logic cannot certify itself, through the ethics of a choice made with no final authority above it, and finally to the three things thought cannot reach and must learn to stand beside in silence.It does not arrive at a system. It arrives at a question it hands to the reader, in the half-second before the last distinction dissolves.Written by a physician, To Exist Is to Differ is a book for readers who prefer a question held precisely to an answer given too soon.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A man is dying on a table, and a doctor has ninety seconds to decide what he is - not who, but what: a bleed or a clot, two diagnoses that demand opposite hands. He cuts before he knows he has chosen. The patient lives. And a question opens that takes eleven movements to follow to its end: what was the doctor, in the moment of the cut, when he acted before he understood?To Exist Is to Differ is a philosophical dialogue between two voices - one that stays close to the body, the bedside, the cost of a single decision, and one that follows where each case leads when it is carried past the room. Together they pursue a single idea to its limit: that to exist is to hold a distinction open against everything one is not, and to hold it at a cost that is paid continuously, until it can no longer be paid.From this one principle the book moves outward - through what a living cell refuses every second to stay alive, through the stroke that leaves a person intact and yet no longer themselves, through why no one can ever see themselves whole, through love as a circuit drawn across two bodies, through time as something a life makes rather than receives, through the place where logic cannot certify itself, through the ethics of a choice made with no final authority above it, and finally to the three things thought cannot reach and must learn to stand beside in silence.It does not arrive at a system. It arrives at a question it hands to the reader, in the half-second before the last distinction dissolves.Written by a physician, To Exist Is to Differ is a book for readers who prefer a question held precisely to an answer given too soon. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A man is dying on a table, and a doctor has ninety seconds to decide what he is - not who, but what: a bleed or a clot, two diagnoses that demand opposite hands. He cuts before he knows he has chosen. The patient lives. And a question opens that takes eleven movements to follow to its end: what was the doctor, in the moment of the cut, when he acted before he understood?To Exist Is to Differ is a philosophical dialogue between two voices - one that stays close to the body, the bedside, the cost of a single decision, and one that follows where each case leads when it is carried past the room. Together they pursue a single idea to its limit: that to exist is to hold a distinction open against everything one is not, and to hold it at a cost that is paid continuously, until it can no longer be paid.From this one principle the book moves outward - through what a living cell refuses every second to stay alive, through the stroke that leaves a person intact and yet no longer themselves, through why no one can ever see themselves whole, through love as a circuit drawn across two bodies, through time as something a life makes rather than receives, through the place where logic cannot certify itself, through the ethics of a choice made with no final authority above it, and finally to the three things thought cannot reach and must learn to stand beside in silence.It does not arrive at a system. It arrives at a question it hands to the reader, in the half-second before the last distinction dissolves.Written by a physician, To Exist Is to Differ is a book for readers who prefer a question held precisely to an answer given too soon. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…