Where do we come from? Are we merely a cluster of elementary particles in a giga
ntic world receptacle? And what does it all mean? In this highly original new bo
ok, the philosopher Markus Gabriel challenges our notion of what exists and what
it means to exist. He questions the idea that there is a world that encompasses
everything like a container life, the universe, and everything else. This all-i
nclusive being does not exist and cannot exist.
For the world itself is not f
ound in the world. And even when we think about the world, the world about which
we think is obviously not identical with the world in which we think. For, as w
e are thinking about the world, this is only a very small event in the world.
