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The Human TouchMichael Frayn

The Human Touch

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What do we really know? What are we in relation to the world around us? Playwright and novelist Frayn takes on the great questions of his career--and of our lives. Humankind, scientists agree, is an insignificant speck in the impersonal vastness of the universe. But what would that universe be like if we were not here to say something about it? Would there be numbers if there were no one to count them? With wit, charm, and brilliance, this epic work of philosophy sets out to make sense of our place in the scheme of things. Our contact with the world around us, Michael Frayn shows, is always…

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
PaperbackPicador20085129780312426286
HardcoverMetropolitan Books20075129780805081480
HardcoverFaber20065059780571232178
Philosophical anthropologyCosmologyNew York Times reviewed