A Tear at the Edge of Creation
A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe
Marcelo Gleiser, 2010
About the Book
For centuries, scientists and philosophers have searched for a single, elegant principle capable of explaining all of reality. In A Tear at the Edge of Creation, Marcelo Gleiser challenges this enduring ambition, arguing that nature is not built upon perfect symmetry but on imperfection, asymmetry, and creative instability. Rather than flaws to be eliminated, these imperfections are the very conditions that make complexity, life, and consciousness possible.
Moving beyond cosmology alone, the book proposes a broader philosophy of science—one that embraces uncertainty, contingency, and emergence as fundamental characteristics of the universe. It lays the intellectual foundation for many of the ideas that would define Gleiser's later work on knowledge, meaning, and human existence.
Awards
Jabuti Prize 2011 — Winner.
