{"product_id":"to-exist-is-to-differ-a-dialogue-in-eleven-movements-9798199435949","title":"To Exist Is to Differ: A Dialogue in Eleven Movements","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Laurentiu Lupu\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Mind \u0026amp; Body\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Exist Is to Differ\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by a physician, \u003ci\u003eTo Exist Is to Differ\u003c\/i\u003e is a book for readers who prefer a question held precisely to an answer given too soon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968712196247,"sku":"9798199435949","price":1289.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798199435949.webp?v=1782919137","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/to-exist-is-to-differ-a-dialogue-in-eleven-movements-9798199435949","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}