Stanley Rosen’s Nihilism is a key book for understanding the nature of the Western Worldview. Both Heidegger and Nietzsche make Nihilism a center piece of their philosophies. Rosen pursues the nature of nihilism by contrasting the philosophies of Heidegger and Wittgenstein as Nihilistic opposites. Nihilism was originally coined as a term by Turgenev in [...]

http://www.quora.com/What-is-software-architecture There are quite a few good books about Software Architecture. So I think the literature defines Software Architecture well. But what you are really asking about is where the Architect fits into the Software Development Team. With the change over from Agile and Scrum approaches to Software Development the architecture and requirements seems to [...]

http://www.quora.com/What-is-a-narrative As a person who does not understand narrative very well intrinsically I have become fascinated with the topic through a personal deficiency. http://datavisualization.ch/showcases/ebb-flow-of-book-characters/ One thing that I can understand is that narratives are inversions of maps. In other words narratives are to time what maps are to space. So as we can say the [...]

http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-cool-unique-story-lines No one for a long time has written a book that encapsulates the worldview. Dreyfus gives some examples from history like the Anead, lliad/Odyssey, Dante’s inferno, Brothers Karamazov, or Moby Dick. He has a new book about that called the Shining Ones. I have a fundamental handicap that I cannot understand how to produce [...]

      http://www.quora.com/How-has-monotheism-affected-a-civilizations-ability-to-progress-in-science This is actually a complicated question to answer because so many things are being assumed in the question and the first anonymous response which I take to be the questioners further explanation. However, the question itself does beg for an answer. Is Monotheism a precursor for Modern Science and our progress [...]

http://www.quora.com/How-long-does-it-take-to-write-the-first-draft-of-a-book I wrote the first draft of my dissertation Emergent Design at http://emergentdesign.net in six weeks. Then it took ten or eleven months to rework it so that the english was acceptable with my wife as my editor. We argued over every sentence. After I was done I did a diff between the original draft [...]

http://www.quora.com/Breaking-into-Books-Book-Publishing/What-does-it-take-to-be-a-prolific-writer I am a prolific writer. Prolific does not necessarily mean a good writer, as my wife keeps reminding me. But there is a certain point when one begins to be able to just set down and start writing. Taking that stream of consciousness and making it into something worth reading is then a lot [...]