Mario Radovan: Existence and Transience- On knowledge, feelings and me

This is a book of reflections on the wonder and challenge of existence and transience. From the inanimate matter emerged life and the finite consciousness which yearns for infinity. People have struggled against their ephemerality by means of gods, spirits and immortal soul. The book puts forward critical outlines of Western and Eastern religions, by means of which people have tried to save and liberate themselves from the suffering and death that life brings about.By means of science and technology, people have gained great operative power and produced many gadgets with which they play, and plenty of commodities which they intensely consume. People produce and consume intensely to displace the awareness of their limitation, ephemerality and futility. This book claims that the best way for people to give a meaning to their ephemeral existence is to use their abilities and power in the way that lessens suffering and ignorance, and promotes understanding, goodness and beauty. People ought to become poets of existence and transience.The first edition of this book was published in 2014 under the title Existence and Ephemerality; in 2025, I replaced "ephemerality" with "transience" which sounds more familiar. In this book, some contents from my other books have been retold, because they were needed in this story. The book consists of paragraphs, grouped into sections and chapters; each paragraph is denoted by a pair of the form "x.y", where x is the number of the chapter, and y is the number of the paragraph in that chapter.Stranica: 277Dimenzije: 14 x 20Jezik: LONDONPismo: LatinicaStanje: Nova knjigaUvez: MekiGodina: 2014