The Necessity of the Impossible

by Nicole des Bouvrie

Philosophy ultimately searches for what lies beyond the possible. This question is what makes us human. We ask about the limits of language, the framing of the world, and how by breaking with what always already is we invite a madness that makes further understanding impossible.

This book presents a call to withstand the normalcy that presents itself as continual variations of the ‘new’. To face the illusions that clutter reality and to engage in asking the final question that is left for us to answer, to un-answer, to suffer again and again. The question of the necessity of the impossible.

244 pages, Paperback

Published September 12, 2019

About the author

Nicole des Bouvrie is a freelance philosopher, ACT therapist and author. She holds a PhD and works as a teacher, therapist, and writer.

In 2018 her first book 'Diagnosis of the Modern Philosopher: Why Philosophers are Mad' was published in Dutch (Damon, 2018).

In 2019 her second book 'The Necessity of the Impossible' was published (in English, Exilic Press, 2019).

At the moment she works on some other manuscripts, as well as the translation of her first book.