The Death of Zarathustra: Notes on Truth for the Risk-taker - Graeme Donald Snooks - Bücher - IGDS Books - 9780980839425 - 16. März 2011
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The Death of Zarathustra: Notes on Truth for the Risk-taker

Graeme Donald Snooks

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The Death of Zarathustra: Notes on Truth for the Risk-taker

This book explores truth in human society ? its nature, role, and future. But it does so in an unorthodox way, by employing a fictional framework. Truth conveyed within a lie. It is an exploration that ranges from Greek rationalism (truth told to outsiders and lies to insiders) in the West and Zoroastrianism (Truth versus the Lie) in the East, to the pragmatism of today, and beyond. It is the year 2044 in a world reeling from the devastating effects of a radical experiment by governments to impose a draconian global climate-mitigation program. After decades of oppression, right-wing forces in Metropolis, the world?s leading society, have thrown off these shackles, taken political control, invaded the devastated oil-rich countries, and are advancing on China after a limited nuclear exchange. In the turmoil, a determined scholar is editing the unpublished essays of an obscure thinker, active between the 1960s and 2010s, who had predicted these events using his revolutionary general dynamic theory of life. A voice from the underground that had been ignored in its own time. The edited essays focus on the role played by truth in the dealings of the state, the people, the intellectuals, the businesspeople, and the clergy of Metropolis in the early years of the twenty-first century. A role that led to the chaos of 2044. Arguing from the grave, our thinker shows there is no general ?will to truth?, even among philosophers; there is no societal demand for truth in the struggle to survive and prosper; and that truth-seeking is the most extreme of extreme sports ? a form of self-vivisection ? pursued by deviants who often end mentally disturbed or taking their own lives.

Medien Bücher     Taschenbuch   (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum 16. März 2011
ISBN13 9780980839425
Verlag IGDS Books
Seitenanzahl 204
Maße 150 × 230 × 10 mm   ·   281 g
Sprache Englisch  

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