Sentences with phrase «like philosophical treatises»

A student of philosophy in college and after, Stella's work, with its firm adherence to self - imposed rules, behaves like philosophical treatises grounded in consistency and reliant on internal and universal logic.

It reshapes his trajectory considerably, so that by the end the book feels more like a philosophical treatise than the sophisticated analysis that it largely is.

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For a book whose title sounds like an affirmation of faith but whose story is about an atheist refuting the existence of God, reading it is a spiritual experience... Many of the positive reviews laud the wit and entertainment Goldstein provides, but honestly, the breadth and depth of ideas covered require close and thoughtful reading... This novel can be read on a few different levels: a romance, a mystery, an intellectual thriller or a philosophical / religious treatise.

Perhaps best known as the futuristic vision behind projects like the Umeda Sky Building in Osaka and the Kyoto Station Building, Hiroshi Hara turned literary, philosophical and theoretical texts — ranging from the Chinese classic Zhuangzi and the Greek Odyssey, to mathematical treatises by Leibniz and Poincaré, and from Kafka's The Castle to TS Eliot's «The Waste Land» and Kenji Miyazawa's Night on the Galactic Railroad — into the basis for conceptual architectural / meta - physical sketches on sheets of ethereal tracing paper that covered the walls of the museum.