01999nam 2200433 450 991016391510332120230808201411.01-78770-024-01-60945-360-3(CKB)3710000001033573(MiAaPQ)EBC4791079(EXLCZ)99371000000103357320170210h20162016 uy| 1engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe principle /Jérôme Ferrari ; translated from the French by Howard CurtisNew York, NY :Europa Editions,[2016]©20161 online resource (73 pages)1-60945-352-2 Beguiled by the figure of German physicist Werner Heisenberg, who disrupted the assumptions of quantum mechanics with his notorious Uncertainty Principle, earning him the Nobel Prize in physics in 1932, a young, disenchanted philosopher attempts to right his own intellectual and emotional course and take the measure of the evil at work in the contemporary world. In this critically acclaimed novel, Jerome Ferrari takes stock of European culture's failings during the 20th century and inserts their implications into a compelling vision of the contemporary world. His story is one of eternal returns, of a perpetual fall of Icarus the inevitably compromised meeting between a man's soul and the mysterious beauty of the world.Judicial assistanceEuropean Union countriesFictionCriminal justice, Administration ofEuropean Union countriesFictionGermanyfastJudicial assistanceCriminal justice, Administration of843.92Ferrari Jérôme617014Curtis HowardMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910163915103321The principle2890154UNINA