The Stupendous Story of Us

From Big Bang to Big Brother in Fifteen Frantic Chapters

The Stupendous Story of Us
Trevor Rollings
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h210 x 148mm - 176pg
8 Mar 2022 UK
9781914414541
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Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? These questions form the title of an 1897 painting by the French artist Paul Gauguin. He knew he was pushing the limits of human knowledge by asking them. He also knew they are not new questions. Our ancestors began to ask them on the African savannah. The Roman poet Lucretius posed them in his long poem On the Nature of Things, written just before the Christian era. He sought natural explanations for the behaviour of matter, without recourse to gods. But he also knew that the world we see is largely a creation of our mind. Since then, science has answered most of his ' how' questions, almost to the point of offering us a ' Theory of Everything' . But Gauguin' s ' why' questions remain largely unanswered. They require a personal response from us, without which, as Lucretius intuited, nothing can be joyous or lovely. In The Stupendous Story of Us, we consider the narrative from all angles: our mastery of the realm of things, our exploration of our inner world, and our connectedness to each other. The pace is frantic because life is short, knowledge is infinite, and the challenges ahead are pressing.
Trevor Rollings read English at Cambridge, then taught for forty years in three countries, mainly as Head of Faculty. His experience teaching ' theory of knowledge' led him to realise that to understand fully how the mind works, we need to unify our ways of knowing in the sciences, arts and humanities, which are often in conflict. His enquiries resulted in a series of seven books called Empires of the Mind. His eighth title, The Stupendous Story of Us, is his first Unicorn book.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781914414541
Published: 8 Mar 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Unicorn Publishing Group
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 148mm
Pages: 176

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