When We Cease to Understand the World
Description
This novel delves into the profound and often unsettling connections between scientific breakthroughs, the human psyche, and the destructive potential of knowledge. Through a fictionalized lens, it explores the lives of brilliant minds like Fritz Haber and Werner Heisenberg, revealing how their groundbreaking discoveries led to unforeseen and devastating consequences. The narrative navigates the complex terrain of genius, madness, and the ethical quandaries that arise when scientific ambition outpaces moral understanding. With a compelling blend of imagination and disturbing detail, the book examines how the expansion of human understanding can simultaneously illuminate and endanger our world.
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paperback
New York Review Books
Published Jan 1, 2021
189 pages
ISBN: 9781681375670
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Details
First Published
2021
Language
eng
Translation
From: spa
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