John Searles crée des romans qui plongent dans les profondeurs complexes de la psychologie humaine et les complexités des relations. Son style narratif se caractérise par une capacité aiguisée à explorer les facettes plus sombres de la nature humaine et les circonstances mystérieuses qui façonnent la vie de ses personnages. Searles construit magistralement le suspense et offre des révélations surprenantes, attirant les lecteurs dans des histoires captivantes remplies de rebondissements inattendus. Son talent pour créer des personnages crédibles et dépeindre leurs luttes intérieures l'établit comme une voix distinctive dans la fiction contemporaine.
Tense and terrifying, the narrative features unforgettable characters whose lives intersect in shocking ways. The story unfolds with unexpected twists that keep readers on edge, ensuring a gripping experience that lingers long after the last page.
Tense and terrifying, this story features unforgettable characters whose lives intersect in shocking ways. The narrative builds suspense, leading to a twist that will catch readers off guard, ensuring a gripping experience that lingers long after the last page.
Focusing on the intersection of law and philosophy, this collection of essays examines the criteria that attribute value to objects such as paper currency and digital signals. It delves into the conceptual frameworks that underpin our understanding of money and its significance in society.
Les parents de la jeune Sylvie Mason ont une occupation pour le moins inhabituelle : exorcistes baignés dans la foi chrétienne, ils prêtent main-forte aux âmes tourmentées pour les aider à retrouver la paix. Un soir d'hiver, alors qu'ils sont appelés à se rendre dans une vieille église à l'orée de la ville, ils disparaissent l'un après l'autre par les portes rouges de l'édifice lorsque des coups de feu retentissent... Bien décidée à découvrir ce qui s'est réellement passé cette nuit-là, Sylvie n'aura de cesse de chercher les réponses aux questions qui la harcèlent et découvrira des secrets qui hantent sa famille depuis des années.
Die Struktur der menschlichen Zivilisation
Zur Ontologie sozialer Tatsachen
In seinem grundlegenden Werk geht John Searle der Frage nach, in welchem Sinn das Soziale existiert. Was unterscheidet soziale Tatsachen wie etwa Geld von natürlichen Tatsachen wie der Höhe eines Berges? Searle kommt zu dem Ergebnis, daß soziale Tatsachen durch Phänomene kollektiver Intentionalität konstituiert werden. Hierfür entwickelt er die mittlerweile zum philosophischen Standardrepertoire gehörende Formel »X gilt als Y in C«, die aufschlüsselt, wie zum Beispiel ein Stück Papier in einem bestimmten sozialen Kontext als Geld behandelt wird. Eine brillante Analyse, ein Klassiker.
Fünf Jahre ist es her, dass der 18-jährige Ronnie Chase in der Nacht seines Abschlussballs bei einem tragischen Unfall ums Leben kam. Mit seinem Tod geriet das Leben seiner gesamten Familie aus der Bahn. Die Mutter, Charlene, verbitterte, der Vater, Richard, reichte die Scheidung ein, und Ronnies älterer Bruder Philip suchte das Weite. Und dann taucht fünf Jahre später auch noch plötzlich Melissa, Ronnies damalige Freundin auf, und behauptet steif und fest, von Ronnie ein Kind zu erwarten-…
Beautifully written and charged with a sublime wit, the novel brings to vibrant life a cast of characters that no reader will forget. After a mysterious fall from his New York City apartment, Philip Chase has moved back home with his mother, Charlene, a bitter woman who has never fully accepted the death of her younger son, Ronnie, five years earlier. Numb from watching too much television, rereading a tragic biography, and trading snipes with his mother, Philip is in stasis. But everything changes late one windy February night when Ronnie's high school girlfriend shows up on their doorstep. A sad young woman who still bears the scars of the accident that took Ronnie's life on the night of their prom, Melissa has unexpectedly found hope. She is nine months pregnant. And the father, she claims, is Ronnie. So begins this startling tale, which moves from one breathless surprise to another as Philip and his mother confront not only Melissa's past but their own. Their desperate search for answers takes them on a poignant and emotional journey, ultimately placing them in the path of murder and revenge. At once a moving story of redemption and a heart-stopping work of suspense, Strange but True confirms John Searles's place among the most gifted voices of his generation. Beautifully written and charged with a sublime wit, the novel brings to vibrant life a cast of characters that no reader will forget.
"In the second half of the book, Searle applies his theory of social reality to the problem of political power, explaining the role of language in the formation of our political reality. The institutional structures that organize, empower, and regulate our lives - money, property, marriage, government - consist in the assignment and collective acceptance of certain statuses to objects and people. Whether it is the president of the United States, a twenty-dollar bill, or private property, these entities perform functions as determined by their status in our institutional reality. Searle focuses on the political powers that exist within these systems of status functions and the way in which language constitutes them."--BOOK JACKET.
