The Story behind the Book: Rainstorm of Tomorrow (Dong)


Today's blog post is the next in the series of book back stories and is the story behind Rainstorm of Tomorrow by Renyuan Dong.

From the publisher - 

Rainstorm of Tomorrow presented as a rather unusual book. The author was very young and nothing short of brilliant. The traditional publisher would say: "cannot take this book because the traditional author cred is lacking." (Make no mistake, Renyuan is building that cred now and has been doing so and will be doing so. He just happened to write his book before building the cred -- and the book, having won awards and great reviews -- lends to his credibility now.) The insights of someone so young was breathtaking; the level of knowledge of multiple domains --philosophy, history, art, science -- was astounding (and makes it difficult to pigeonhole, i.e. categorize the book); how Renyuan wove it all together in a logical argument that is simultaneously an emotional story is magical. We HAD to take a risk on this book. We did. And we are proud of it!

Book Description:

Rainstorm of Tomorrow: The Ever-Flowing Banquet of Philosophy dexterously weaves the storied philosophical themes of truth, ethics, and aesthetics together with the theories of relativity, quantum mechanics, neuroscience, epigenetics, social Darwinism, utilitarianism, evolutionary psychology, and modern art--from the soberest rationality to the wildest conjecture--to generate provocative or even alienated discourse on topics that readers might otherwise regard themselves as being familiar with, and challenge them into rethinking any settled positions that are taken for granted. Such provocative insights are represented by the three parts on truth, ethics, and aesthetics respectively:

(I) A reversed worldview--the tree growing into the soil with its roots buried in the air.

(II) The complexity of ethical behaviors--the conformity to utilitarianism by anti-utilitarian events and the violation of utilitarianism by seemingly utilitarian events.

(III) The establishment of universal aesthetics--memory inheritance through "the encephalic waterpipe."


Rainstorm of Tomorrow has earned the following awards
Silver Medal/Science, Kops-Fetherling International Books Award
Silver Award/Humanities, Reader Views Literary Awards Competition
Silver Award, Literary Titan Book Awards

Review comments:

Wonderful book that challenged my thoughts and notions which I took for granted. Renyon poses mind experiments and propositions that had me looking more from the outside in than inside out. At times I just read with a big grin. Highly recommended. Philosophy is NOT dead. (Steve Timmins)

A remarkable volume of philosophical overview by a Tokyo-based healthcare consultant who has spent time in more than thirty countries, this book sheds new and illuminating light on that which are generally considered to be three primary branches of philosophical pursuit...Much of Dong's monograph, though driven by a studious and deep dive into the complex quirks and nuances of philosophical inquiry, reads (in some passages) like pure poetry. ... He has set a new course on his motley subject matter, which forces one to question boundaries and, at times, conventional wisdom vis-à-vis "traditional" philosophical assumptions. RECOMMENDED. US Review of Books (Jonah Meyer)

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