Why the World Does Not Exist (Paperback)

Thinking Philosophy Anew 1

Appearance and Being 2

New Realism 5

The Plurality of Worlds 8

Less than Nothing 11

I What is this Actually: the World? 16

You and the Universe 21

Materialism 28

“The World is Everything that is the Case” 32

Constructivism 38

Philosophers and Physicists 44

II What is Existence? 50

The Super-Object 53

Monism, Dualism, Pluralism 56

Absolute and Relative Differences 61

Fields of Sense 65

III Why the World Does Not Exist 73

The Super-Thought 78

Nihilism and Non-Existence 81

The External and the Internal World 91

IV The Worldview of Natural Science 99

Naturalism 106

Monism 111

The Book of the World 115

Subjective Truths 126

Holzwege 131

Science and Art 137

V The Meaning of Religion 146

Fetishism 154

The Infinite 162

Religion and the Search for Meaning 168

The Function of God 178

VI The Meaning of Art 184

Ambivalences 186

On Sense and Reference 190

The Demon of Analogy 194

Reflexivity 197

Diversity 204

VII Closing Credits: Television 209

A Show about Nothing 212

The Senses . . . 215

. . . and the Meaning of Life 220

Notes 222

Glossary 231

Index of Names 237