How To Like Everything: A Utopia

How To Like Everything: A Utopia

by Paul Shepheard
How To Like Everything: A Utopia

How To Like Everything: A Utopia

by Paul Shepheard

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Overview

How To Like Everything is a utopia. 'Utopia' is a word invented five hundred years ago at the start of the modern age as a description of the ideal society. It's composed of Latin parts that taken together mean 'no place' or 'nowhere'. We now use the word utopia to mean an impossible dream of perfection. How To Like Everything recasts the actual world, the forever-changing world we live in, as utopia: to make the impossible possible. This is not a dry academic debate. Paul Shepheard takes on his subject by threading questions, evidence and logic through hilarious, moving and thought-provoking stories. The action is set in the complicated city of Amsterdam, where he gets stuck in the briars of love affairs, existential decisions and conflicts with complete strangers. And the philosophy? He is a materialist. His utopia hinges on the question of whether there can be anything other than the present moment.
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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780998206
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 07/16/2013
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 146
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

1 Everything 1

1 The Atheist's Progress 2

2 The World Whisperer 7

3 Family Life 14

Tabula Scripta 23

2 Values 27

4 Ignorance and Experience 28

5 Public Space 35

6 The Pack of Thoughts 40

Angeland 47

3 Narratives 51

7 Clichés 52

8 Special-Not-Special 57

9 Life and Art 61

10 The Globeskin 67

The Only Possible World 75

4 Philosophies 79

11 Context 80

12 What, Whow and Wherewhen 87

13 Commitment 91

Cliff Face Earth 97

5 Places 101

14 Aachen 102

15 Our Dear Lord in the Attic 108

16 Intensive Care 113

17 The Cuckoo's Nest 118

The Bowl of the Horizon 124

6 Everything Again 127

18 Everything 128

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