{"product_id":"quanta-alterity-and-love-mark-dreher-9798995130024","title":"Quanta, Alterity, and Love: Quantum Physics, and Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eQuanta, Alterity, and Love: When the Findings of Quantum Physics, Philosophy, and Radical Alterity Collide\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMultitiered approach for beginners and advanced seekers alike!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVolume 3: Towards Radical Exteriority as Philosophy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf the first two volumes established the rupture and tracked our descent into the breach\u003c\/strong\u003e, the third marks our final reckoning. The crisis upon us is not merely the collapse of classical certainty, but the potential extinction of a species whose values cannot survive the blinding light of these strange, new worlds. The\u003cem\u003e world-home\u003c\/em\u003e we left behind was a \u003cem\u003elandscape\u003c\/em\u003e condemned by the violence of \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003emight makes right\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e-a history written by victors and consecrated in the blood of the vanquished. Our true dilemma is no longer the rupture of reality, but the haunting, ethical question: \u003cstrong\u003eHow, then, shall we act?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume provides an essential navigation for the survivor of the quantum shift-those seeking to understand how the \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003echasm of chaos\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eil y a\u003c\/em\u003e meaning the stark \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ethere-is\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, demands an astounding asymmetry. Here, the \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eradical exteriority of the Other\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e places demand before volition and responsibility before existence-holding us hostage to an ethics that precedes both our arrival and our relentless retreats. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn Volume 3\u003c\/strong\u003e, we first step back to reflect on where we have been. We examine how excesses we have discovered cannot sustain classicisms' transactionalism, neutrality, consciousness, and origin. We explore rhymes of ancient philosophers' histories of origin and chaos, subsequent paths taken and intuitions pointing towards the abyss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the mechanics of the abyss to radical alterity\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003e juxtaposing the \"spooky\" chaos of Einsteinian physics with the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, this study moves through frameworks of Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche, into Twentieth-Century philosophical companions of the rupture towards a territory where responsibility precedes existence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe revisit \u003cstrong\u003eethics and love\u003c\/strong\u003e through \u003cstrong\u003epractical experiences\u003c\/strong\u003e in love and pain, suffering, guilt, persecution, accusation, substitution, and expiation - our \u003cem\u003einability to be able\u003c\/em\u003e. Here we understand how the chasm of quantum chaos is infinitely surpassed in the demands of astounding asymmetry-a navigation of the \u003cem\u003emy-self \u003c\/em\u003enot as a victor, but as a retreat. What is meant by an asymmetric relationship to the neighbor before ego can ever arise? Discover how the radical exteriority of the Other places demand before volition, holding us hostage preceding our very arrival as ego. How does ethics and love precede our illusions of an \u003cem\u003eisolated self\u003c\/em\u003e - a \u003cem\u003ething\u003c\/em\u003e, challenging our most \u003cem\u003ecommonsense\u003c\/em\u003e assumptions. The radical alterity of the other in the neighbor who faces us is an incommensurably greater abyss than quantum physics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Dreher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798995130024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mixermuse, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.65d","brand":"Mark Dreher","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001615360255,"sku":"9798995130024","price":17.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/quanta-alterity-and-love-mark-dreher-9798995130024","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}