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Aristotle, perplexed by sleep, wrote, “Sleep is on the borders of life and absence of life, and the sleeper is between being and non-being.” Yet how can one consider the truth of being, along the lines of Western philosophy, when it does not know how to integrate being into dreams? In a fascinating and unusual look at sleep from a philosophical perspective, author Pierre Carrique argues that since wakefulness, sleep and dreaming are essential determinations of man, dreaming must now be placed at the heart of all philosophical reflection.
Revealing how Greek philosophers such as Plato, Heraclitus and Pindar came closer to understanding the true philosophical significance of dreams than modern philosophers such as Descartes, Leibnitz, Husserl and Sartre, this book questions the relegation of the question of sleep to a less crucial status by modern Western philosophy.