{"product_id":"journey-to-an-ghrian-nzall-lambkin-9781835841679","title":"Journey to An Ghrian: Plato's Cave Allegory Reconceived","description":"\u003cp\u003eJourney to An Ghrian: Plato's Cave Allegory Reconceived, Vol. 1:  Ruchbah, Bruegel, Meaning and the Whale - Consciousness, Bioengineering, and Existential Questions takes one of the oldest forms in philosophy - the dialogue - and employs it to exploreone of the most urgent questions of our age: what do we owe to a being we have brought into consciousness? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the centre of the book is Ksora Ruchbah, a bioengineered entity in profound existential crisis, and Delta Cephei, a phenomenologist and analytic philosopher of mind. Their conversations - probing, ironic, and at moments deeply unsettling - enact a sustained argument: that Heideggerian existential analysis and analytic philosophy of mind are not rival traditions but complementary approaches, each incomplete without the other. Together they illuminate what consciousness requires to flourish - embodiment, community, heritage, temporal continuity - and why creating a conscious being without these conditions is an ethical failure of the first order. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book also advances an original theory of art. In Bruegel's The Harvesters and the counterpoint of Bach, temporality is not backdrop but argument: genuine aesthetic comprehension demands that the perceiver inhabits time, not merely observes it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRigorous, formally inventive, and compellingly readable, Journey to An Ghrian is a serious work of philosophical fiction for readers willing to follow ideas to their conclusions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Níall Lambkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1835841678\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781835841679\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rowanvale Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 594\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.44d","brand":"Níall Lambkin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49002307846399,"sku":"9781835841679","price":47.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/journey-to-an-ghrian-nzall-lambkin-9781835841679","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}