Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt

Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story

Jim Holt

307 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Moving away from the narrower paths of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking, the celebrated essayist Jim Holt now enters this fascinating debate with his broad, lively and deeply informed narrative that traces all our efforts to...

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