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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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Astonish Yourself: 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life

by Roger Pol Droit

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Say your name aloud to yourself in a quiet room. Imagine peeling an apple in your mind. Take the subway without trying to get anywhere. The simple meditations in this book have the potential to shake us awake from our preconceived certainties: our own identity, the stability of the outside world, the meanings of words. At once entertaining and startling, irreverent and wise, this book will provoke moments of awareness for readers in any situation and in all walks of life. Enter the space of your favorite painting. Watch someone sleeping. The world won't look the same again.

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This playful and profound French bestseller about finding the miraculous in the mundane offers 101 experiments in the philosophy of everyday life.

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Roger Pol-Droit was born in Paris in 1949 and is a philosopher, a researcher at the Centre de la Recherche Scientifique, and a columnist for the French daily newspaper Le Monde.
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ISBN:
9780142003138
Subtitle:
101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life
Author:
Droit, Roger Pol
Author:
Droit, Roger-Pol
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Philosophy
Subject:
Meditation
Subject:
Motivational
Series Volume:
4425-4426
Publication Date:
July 2003
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
224
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714x636x62 35
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