It isn't much of a stretch to see much of the western philosophical tradition's obsession with free will starting here.
Universities, with their academic obsessions, their erudite, philosophical bent, should concentrate on overturning that.
One of the most highly praised debuts this year, Kleeman's novel is a hilarious yet philosophical satire on our weird obsessions about food and bodies.
Looping, or endless circularity, is an artistic strategy whose built-in themes include time, space, reality, philosophical and perceptual conundrum, human obsession, social stagnation and all kinds of painful or amusing futilities.
But neatness counts: looping, or endless circularity, is an artistic strategy -- especially in the days of video and digital manipulation -- whose built-in themes include time, space, reality, philosophical and perceptual conundrums, human obsession, social stagnation and all kinds of painful or amusing futilities.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Bed of Procrustes provides an elegiac, enlightening and yet amusing philosophical look at the human obsession with both predicting the unpredictable and with fame and riches.
This arresting diptych of verse and philosophical prose charts a twenty-five-year obsession with the prehistoric cave paintings of southwestern France.
But when those climactic moments dissolve into strands of introspection, anxiety, otherworldliness and other Mahlerian obsessions, you need something more, a philosophical and emotional core around which the performance is built.
This fifth book makes that point through a rather more philosophical approach.Mr Amato is fascinated with man's obsession with the minuscule through the ages.
Carl Sagan and Arthur C. Clarke, among others, may have admired Gardner for his "skeptical intelligence," yet Gardner always seemed equally as eager to embrace his less rational side, declaring himself both a "philosophical theist" and a "Mysterian," and exhibiting a lifelong obsession with magic.
