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Published by Anagrama · Philosophy and religion · ISBN 9788433916556

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Two essays in which Labatut reflects on madness and chaos with the help of science, literature and his own experience. He draws on a painting by Bosch, Lovecraft's primal terror, David Hilbert's logic and Philip K. Dick's delirious illumination to describe how strange human experience is becoming, and suggests that losing one's mind can sometimes be a logical response to reality.

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For essay readers who like crossing science, art and literature, and who are drawn to questions about the limits of reason.

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