{"product_id":"when-we-cease-to-understand-the-world-9781681375663","title":"When We Cease to Understand the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen We Cease to Understand the World\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger--these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Benjamín Labatut thrusts the reader, showing us how they grappled with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, alienate friends and lovers, descend into isolation and insanity. Some of their discoveries reshape human life for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt a breakneck pace and with a wealth of disturbing detail, Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to tell the stories of the scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/28\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681375663\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/12\/2021\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Benjamin Labatut","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40894344757429,"sku":"9781681375663","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_94723d14-907c-4ae4-9979-e8e1c7c7e6c3.jpg?v=1630415406","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/when-we-cease-to-understand-the-world-9781681375663","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}