The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe Michael Frayn on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. What do we really know? What are we in relation to the world around us? Here, the acclaimed playwright and novelist takes on the great questions of his career--and of our lives Humankind. The Original Michael Frayn, a collection of the above four, plus nineteen new Observer pieces. Constructions, a volume of philosophical twaddle (1974). Celia s Secret: An Investigation (US title The Copenhagen Papers), with David Burke (2000). The Human Touch: Our part in the creation of the universe (2006).
THE HUMAN TOUCH: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe, Michael Frayn, Used; Go - EUR 5,30. The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe Item Note: Versand in 1 Werktag. ISBN: 0571232175 EAN: 9780571232178 Authors: Michael Frayn Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Faber And Faber Publish Date: 2006 Condition: Good SKU: 560591LieferungWir. Bekannt ist Michael Frayn darüber hinaus für seine Tschechow-Übersetzungen ins Englische. Michael Frayn ist in zweiter Ehe mit der englischen Literaturkritikerin Claire Tomalin verheiratet. Ehrungen (Auswahl) Somerset Maugham Award (1966), für The Tin Men; Hawthornden-Preis (1967), für The Russian Interpreter. Synopsis What would that universe be like if human being were not here to observe it? Would there be still be numbers, or scientific laws? Would the universe even be vast, without our tininess to give it scale? This paradox is what Michael Frayn calls the world s oldest mystery Who ate the salted peanuts? Jerry Fodor. The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe by Michael Frayn Faber, 505 pp, £20.00, September 2006, ISBN 0 571 23217. Michael Frayn’s philosophical book (Faber 2006) THE HUMAN TOUCH is reading in low light during a drunken bar brawl word by word. I mean don’t get me wrong it’s a fascinating and highly intelligent in depth arse kicking piece of writing, but Frayn is a mad hatter at the epicentre of the abstract copping zone. A taste of Frayn, “…there is no stuff called size at large in the world.
The human touch our part in creation of a universe michael frayn. The Human Touch Our Part in the Creation of a Universe. Michael Frayn. Picador.
Mankind, Scientists Agree, Is A Tiny And Insignificant Anomaly In The Impersonal Vastness Of The Universe. But What Would That Universe Be Like If We Were Not Here To Say Something About It? Would It Even Be So Vast, Without The Fact Of Our Insignificance To Give It Scale? What Would The Universe Be Like If Human Beings Were Not Here To Observe.