Research Catalog
The experience of nothingness
- Title
- The experience of nothingness / Michael Novak.
- Author
- Novak, Michael
- Publication
- New York : Harper & Row, 1971.
- ©1970
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- Additional Authors
- Series Statement
- Harper Colophon books/CN 239
- Subject
- Note
- "First Harper Colophon edition published 1971."
- Source (note)
- of the Dedalus Foundation;
- Contents
- pt. 1. The experience of nothingness. The pursuit of happiness? -- The experience of America -- In Europe : Nihilism -- The four myths of the University -- Story, myth, and horizon -- pt. 2. The source of the experience. America's commitment to objectivity -- Three doubts about objectivity -- The drive to raise questions -- Honesty and freedom -- Courage and community -- pt. 3. Inventing the self. Action is dramatic -- Decision lies with discernment -- Three myths of the self -- Truth is subjectivity -- pt. 4. Myths and institutions. The sense of reality -- The tool -- Politics and consciousness -- Nothingness and reality.
- Call Number
- ReCAP 25-26720
- ISBN
- 9780060902391
- 0060902396
- OCLC
- 2733646
- Author
- Novak, Michael, author.
- Title
- The experience of nothingness / Michael Novak.
- Publisher
- New York : Harper & Row, 1971.
- Copyright Date
- ©1970
- Description
- ix, 147 pages ; 21 cm.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Harper Colophon books/CN 239
- Summary
- In this work, the author has two objectives. First, he shows the paths by which the experience of nothingness is becoming common among all those who live in free societies. Second, he details the various experiences that lead to the nothingness point of view. Most discussions of these matters have been so implicated in the European experience that the term "nihilism" has a European ring. This author, however, articulates this experience of formlessness in an American context.
- Source
- Gift; of the Dedalus Foundation; 2025. NN
- Added Author
- Dedalus Foundation, donor. NNRobert Motherwell Book Collection (New York Public Library. Art Division)
- Research Call Number
- ReCAP 25-26720