{"product_id":"creative-obsession-2nd-ed-viator-e-oleviter-9780988405073","title":"Creative Obsession (2nd Ed.): Philosophic Life in Broad Daylight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCreative Obsession \u003c\/em\u003eis an \u003cem\u003eapomary\u003c\/em\u003e, a fragmented fusion of \u003cem\u003eaphorisms\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eapothegms \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eapologues\u003c\/em\u003e, which depicts a \"boiling pot\" of philosophy with astonishing succinctness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fervent protagonist of \u003cem\u003eCreative Obsession \u003c\/em\u003eis Homer Dogg, \"a hardcore traveler, an honest scholar, and an infatuated artist.\" The apomary spans Homer Dogg's fleeting, peripatetic life, while unearthing a deep-rooted connectedness of \u003cem\u003eaesthetic\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eepistemic\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eethic \u003c\/em\u003ethinking. \u003cem\u003eCreative Obsession \u003c\/em\u003ecelebrates \"creative people of all stripes, who live and work passionately, resiliently, and with their eyes wide open.\" It portrays \u003cem\u003ephilosophic life in broad daylight\u003c\/em\u003e for the \"firstborn of the Third Millennium.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Homer Dogg says in ten sentences (sometimes less) what others don't say in a whole book.\" -F. W. Nietzsche\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A literary, aporistic and, if you ask me, successful experiment in harnessing the omnipresent powers of abductive logic.\" -C. S. Peirce\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCreative Obsession\u003c\/em\u003e is a portrait of the indomitable spirits who wage \u003cem\u003eimpassioned\u003c\/em\u003e, philosophic lives--artists of the 21st Century enmeshed in their soul-wrenching pursuit of new paradigms of understanding, who reject a \"universalistic\" rationality and its monolithic \"correspondence\" of Truth to Reality. With scintillating vignettes and incisive prose, \u003cem\u003eCreative Obsession\u003c\/em\u003e delves into the existential consequences of a radically \"pragmatical\" truth. It nurtures the burgeoning understanding that the mind is \u003cem\u003enot\u003c\/em\u003e a \"mirror\" of the True world-but that language is a mind-molding, human-made \u003cem\u003etool\u003c\/em\u003e for adapting \u003cem\u003etruly \u003c\/em\u003eto postindustrial life on an increasingly inhospitable planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn just fifty-six eclectic segments (and a revealing afterword), \u003cem\u003eCreative Obsession \u003c\/em\u003epresents the glistening mosaic of a wide-open, un-universal, \u003cem\u003eneo-philosophic \u003c\/em\u003elandscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Viator E. O'Leviter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0988405075\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780988405073\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temescal Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.41d","brand":"Viator E. O'Leviter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47930696859903,"sku":"9780988405073","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bb731e28-deef-4022-adf9-09e6bb5ad3ac.jpg?v=1766343642","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/creative-obsession-2nd-ed-viator-e-oleviter-9780988405073","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}