The View From Nowhere.
"Objectivity of whatever kind is not the test of reality. It is just one way of understanding reality": First Edition of The View From Nowhere; Signed by Thomas Nagel
The View From Nowhere.
NAGEL, Thomas.
$600.00
Item Number: 145276
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
First edition of this philosophical work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, “Thomas Nagel New York March 24, 2016.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Ownership signature from the year of publication to the front pastedown. Jacket design by Egon Lauterberg. Jacket painting, ‘The Large Enclosure Near Dresden,’ by Caspar David Friedrich.
Thomas Nagel's ambitious and exciting book, 'The View From Nowhere,' seeks to reconcile seemingly opposed ideologies that take up the same space in humanity's shared consciousness: the ability to think about the world as it is, detached from ourselves, and the undeniably personal perspective with which we see and experience the world. Throughout the book, Nagel interacts with different fields of philosophy as he searches for the solution to excessive objectification.
