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To Exist Is to Differ: A Dialogue in Eleven Movements

by Laurentiu Lupu
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798199435949
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 118
  • Original Price: USD 14.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 123 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Mind & Body

A man is dying on a table, and a doctor has ninety seconds to decide what he is - not who, but what: a bleed or a clot, two diagnoses that demand opposite hands. He cuts before he knows he has chosen. The patient lives. And a question opens that takes eleven movements to follow to its end: what was the doctor, in the moment of the cut, when he acted before he understood?

To Exist Is to Differ is a philosophical dialogue between two voices - one that stays close to the body, the bedside, the cost of a single decision, and one that follows where each case leads when it is carried past the room. Together they pursue a single idea to its limit: that to exist is to hold a distinction open against everything one is not, and to hold it at a cost that is paid continuously, until it can no longer be paid.

From this one principle the book moves outward - through what a living cell refuses every second to stay alive, through the stroke that leaves a person intact and yet no longer themselves, through why no one can ever see themselves whole, through love as a circuit drawn across two bodies, through time as something a life makes rather than receives, through the place where logic cannot certify itself, through the ethics of a choice made with no final authority above it, and finally to the three things thought cannot reach and must learn to stand beside in silence.

It does not arrive at a system. It arrives at a question it hands to the reader, in the half-second before the last distinction dissolves.

Written by a physician, To Exist Is to Differ is a book for readers who prefer a question held precisely to an answer given too soon.

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