Metaphysical Horror

by Leszek Kołakowski

Book Overview

For over a century, philosophers have argued that philosophy is impossible or useless, or both. Although the basic notion dates back to the days of Socrates, there is still heated disagreement about the nature of truth, reality, knowledge, the good, and God. This may make little practical difference to our lives, but it leaves us with a feeling of radical uncertainty, a feeling described by Kolakowski as "metaphysical horror." "The horror is this,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226450554
• ISBN13: 9780226450551
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.4" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Ontologically challenging

This was one of the more Ontologically challenging books I've read in some time. A day without metaphysics is a day without sunshine.

An intellectual manifesto

Dr. Kolakowski's work is brilliant! Reading this small yet deep work of philosophical thought, makes one feels as if the author was having an open minded conversation with all his readers. This book draws one into the mind of a great intellectual who sees and speaks to the interdisciplinary connectivity between multiple subjects from a philosophic and social thought perspective.