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This book explores the concept of abstraction as both a central method of philosophical inquiry and a process that inevitably encounters multiple forms of limitation. Through logical, epistemological, ontological, linguistic, existential, and mystical perspectives, it examines how abstraction can clarify, distort, transcend, or collapse into self-reference and emptiness. It argues that while abstraction is essential for conceptual thought, it also risks severing ties with lived experience, language, and meaning.

This paper proposes a parallel system of intelligent, non-monetary resource distribution modeled on biological metabolism, in which needs are met dynamically through feedback-driven regulation rather than symbolic exchange. Inspired by the way organisms distribute nutrients and resources without currency—using signaling, prioritization, and homeostasis—we outline a framework in which artificial intelligence performs a similar coordinating function at the societal level. Such a system would gradually render traditional money obsolete, not through ideological abolition, but through redundancy.

What if the ability to laugh at yourself were not a weakness, but a hidden strength? This book explores self-irony as a rare art of survival—an inner freedom that does not erase pain, but softens its weight, allowing us to breathe even in moments of failure, doubt, and imperfection. Through philosophy, psychology, cultural insight, and lived experience, Self-Irony as a Way to Survive invites the listener to see self-irony not as mockery or self-denial, but as a form of quiet courage.

This book traces antimatter from its theoretical origins to its roles in cosmic evolution, laboratory precision, and emerging technology. It follows its perfect symmetry with matter, its fleeting appearances in stellar cores, cosmic rays, and particle accelerators, and its central place in the laws of conservation that govern change. The narrative moves through the early universe, where matter’s survival hinged on an infinitesimal asymmetry, and into present-day experiments testing antimatter’s spectra, magnetic properties, and response to gravity.

What if true freedom doesn’t come from getting more—but from holding less? In a world obsessed with control, achievement, and certainty, many find themselves exhausted, anxious, and quietly unfulfilled. Letting Go: The True Freedom invites a radical rethinking of what it means to be free. Through graceful reflection and sharp insight, this book explores a paradox both ancient and urgent: that real liberation is not found in striving or grasping, but in release.

In a world unraveling under the weight of its own complexity, the old ways of knowing no longer suffice. The boundaries that once defined academic disciplines now stand in the way of understanding problems that spill across every line we’ve drawn—climate breakdown, pandemics, technological disruption, global inequality. These are not isolated events. They are symptoms of a deeper fragmentation in how knowledge itself is conceived and practiced. The Unified Future of Knowledge offers a compelling call for transformation.

This book introduces and develops the concept of Historic Antiteleology as a radical reorientation of historical thought beyond the metaphysics of progress, redemption, or narrative coherence. Drawing on the insights of Wilhelm Dilthey, Henri Bergson, and poststructuralist thinkers such as Foucault and Benjamin, the essay critiques the enduring influence of teleological models in historiography — models that frame history as a purposeful sequence culminating in moral, political, or technological fulfillment.

This book explores how meaning, often assumed to be a stable or innate feature of reality, is in fact a constructed phenomenon — shaped, transmitted, and manipulated through language, cultural systems, economic structures, and ideology. Drawing on thinkers such as Wittgenstein, Lacan, Orwell, and contemporary cultural critics, the text unpacks how language limits thought, how culture recycles and fossilizes symbolic forms, and how capitalism turns meaning into a consumable commodity.

What if being alone was not a curse, but a doorway to freedom? This book challenges the old belief that loneliness equals misery. It shows how solitude, when embraced consciously, can become a source of strength, creativity, and peace. Drawing on philosophy, psychology, and lived experience, the author explores the many faces of being alone: the fear of isolation, the myths of “failed personal life,” the healing power of silence, and the hidden pleasures of independence. Far from emptiness, solitude opens space for reflection, beauty, and genuine connection with oneself.

In the contemporary information landscape, individuals are exposed to an overwhelming volume of content delivered through digital and traditional media channels. This saturation does not merely inform—it distorts, desensitizes, and contributes to a subtle yet pervasive psychological condition: collective learned helplessness.

This book is a meditation on the enduring power — and the quiet danger — of the nation. Drawing from personal memory, philosophical critique, and cultural analysis, it explores how nationalism, though a modern invention, has rooted itself deeply in identity, language, death, and belonging. It questions the myths of origin, the imagined unity of the “we,” and the emotional architecture that transforms patriotism into violence. While honoring the richness of cultural difference, it challenges the need for borders, purity, and exclusion as the basis of political life.

This is a book for those willing to see the human without its usual disguises — not as a hero of its own story, but as a creature shaped by difference, trapped in form, and always speaking through structures it cannot fully name. It does not offer reassurance. It offers clarity. Taking its cue from Claude Lévi-Strauss but refusing to remain in the comfort of academic distance, the book brings structural anthropology into direct confrontation with contemporary society.

This book explores the ethical, psychological, and existential tensions between the will to live and the desire to let go in extreme conditions of suffering. Drawing on Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy and the concept of inner freedom, it critically examines whether meaning is always possible — and whether insisting on meaning in the face of despair may become a form of cruelty rather than compassion. Through reflections on assisted suicide, biological compulsion, resistance, and the burden of consciousness, the text challenges the sanctity of survival as a universal good.

In a world increasingly governed by efficiency, commodification, and rationalism, this work explores love as the last sacred illusion—an ineffable force that transcends utility and defies reduction to psychological patterns or algorithmic predictions. Through a critique of modern systems—religion, science, capitalism, and digital culture—it argues that each has failed to provide enduring meaning, leaving love as the final stronghold of human dignity.