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Books

Closure: A Story of Everything by Hilary Lawson

Sam Nico provides closure on a new book by Hilary Lawson.

An essential function of philosophy is to question assumptions in order to reinvigorate the systems built on them. At this point, at the beginning of the 21st century, systems of thought are beginning to atrophy and it is becoming paramount that philosophy rediscover its own traditions of criticism in order to prevent creeping dogma from entrenching itself too deeply.

This book is an attempt to plasticize reality, to make our ideas malleable and reworkable. It does so, not by invoking the principles of criticism, but by showing how criticism of sorts is generated by principles of what it calls ‘closure’. Briefly, it outlines how our conceptual structures are destined to be incomplete.

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