The Meaning of Life and Death: Ten Classic Thinkers on the Ultimate Question
(Sprache: Englisch)
What is the point of living? If we are all going to die anyway, if nothing will remain of whatever we achieve in this life, why should we bother trying to achieve anything in the first place? The connection between death and meaning has taken centre stage...
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What is the point of living? If we are all going to die anyway, if nothing will remain of whatever we achieve in this life, why should we bother trying to achieve anything in the first place? The connection between death and meaning has taken centre stage in the work of some of the world's greatest writers: de Montaigne, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Melville, Nietzsche, James, Wittgenstein, Proust, Camus, and Beckett. The Meaning of Life and Death explores their ideas, uncovering common themes and contrasts in their understanding of what kind of world we live in and what really matters in life.
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PreludeChapter 1: Arthur Schopenhauer and the Worst of All Possible Worlds
Chapter 2: Søren Kierkegaard and the Despair of Not Being Oneself
Chapter 3: Herman Melville and the Interlinked Terrors and Wonders of God
Chapter 4: Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the Hell of No Longer Being Able to Love
Chapter 5: Leo Tolstoy and the Inevitable End of Everything
Chapter 6: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Joy of Living Dangerously
Chapter 7: William James and the Dramatic Richness of the Concrete World
Chapter 8: Marcel Proust and the Only Life That Is Really Lived
Chapter 9: Ludwig Wittgenstein and our Hopeless Battle against the Boundaries of Language
Chapter 10: Albert Camus and the Benign Indifference of the World
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Autoren-Porträt von Michael Hauskeller
Michael Hauskeller is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, UK and the author of of Biotechnology and the Integrity of Life (2007), Better Humans? Understanding the Enhancement Project (2013) Sex and the Posthuman Condition (2014), Handbook of Posthumanism (2015) and Mythologies of Transhumanism (2016).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Michael Hauskeller
- 288 Seiten, Maße: 13,8 x 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN-10: 1350073644
- ISBN-13: 9781350073647
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.09.2019
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Englisch
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