In The Infinite Zero: Essays on Nothingness, Infinity, Time and the World, the philosopher Alexis Karpouzos develops a philosophical thought that seeks to move beyond the binary oppositions of Western metaphysics: Being and Non-Being, finite and infinite, subject and object, unity and multiplicity, order and chaos, life and death. These oppositions are neither simply rejected nor reconciled in a final synthesis. Instead, the book questions the structures of thought and language that produce such divisions and asks whether the World can be approached beyond the demand for a final foundation. At the center of the book lies the paradox of the Infinite Zero. Zero is not understood as mere absence, nor Infinity as endless quantity. Their convergence opens toward Dimensionless Ontology and the Abyss of Nothingness. The Abyss is not another metaphysical foundation or First Principle, but an openness of possibilities through which worlds emerge, transform and disappear. The World is conceived as an Open Whole, a multiplicity of worlds in continuous becoming, without an absolute center or definitive periphery. Spherical Spacetime, Timeless Time, spiral or helical time and the pan-chronical challenge linear temporality, allowing the synchronous, diachronic, local, planetary and cosmic dimensions of time to participate in one another.

Central to this thought is Rhythm, the invisible movement through which differences and oppositions coexist and transform. The Diagonal Path crosses the boundaries established by binary thought, while Meta-Ontological Thought, the Metaphysics of Openness and Paradoxical Logic question the search for ultimate foundations. Contradiction, uncertainty and incompleteness may reveal not merely failures of knowledge, but the limits of every closed system. From this perspective emerges Open Thought: a thinking that remains faithful to questioning rather than claiming possession of final truth. The book also explores Psychoanalysis and the Shadow of Reason, where the unconscious challenges the sovereignty of the rational subject, and the Kaleidoscopic Invisible, where philosophies, sciences, myths and cultures appear as changing configurations of a World that cannot be exhausted by any single image. Knowledge and Wisdom are brought into dialogue: knowledge distinguishes and analyzes, while wisdom recognizes limits and wider horizons. In the Play of the World, necessity and chance, order and creation coexist without an external Player. The World is neither a perfectly determined mechanism nor meaningless chaos, but an open play of transformations and possibilities. Through poiein and prattein, creation and action become forms of participation in the emergence of worlds. Creative imagination opens possibilities for what may become. Here philosophy encounters the Poeticity of the Cosmos, where concept, metaphor, imagination and Silence disclose different dimensions of the World. Finally, Planetary Thought, Universal Consciousness and the meta-humanist condition move beyond anthropocentrism toward a participatory understanding of the Cosmos. Humanity is no longer the sovereign center of the World, but a participant, witness and perhaps messenger within planetary and cosmic processes. The Infinite Zero does not propose another closed philosophical system. Its concepts are openings: from foundation toward openness, from representation toward participation, from binary opposition toward Rhythm, from linear time toward multidimensional temporality, and from the desire for a final answer toward the inexhaustibility of the question.

Zero opens toward Infinity, Infinity returns toward Zero, and between them the World unfolds as an open and inexhaustible play of worlds, transformations and possibilities.