Terry Eagleton
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Oxford University Press
The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction
Pages
128Format
PaperbackRelease date
2008Publisher
Oxford University PressWeight
4 ozSize
6.7 x 0.4 x 4.3 "
The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction shows how centuries of thinkers — from Shakespeare and Schopenhauer to Marx, Sartre, and Beckett — have tackled the conundrum of the meaning of life. This question has become particularly problematic in modern times. There are philosophical and cultural reasons for this. Instead of addressing it head-on, we take refuge from the feelings of ‘meaninglessness’ in our lives by filling them with a multitude of different things: from football and sex, to New Age religions and fundamentalism. Are there limits to questioning the meaning of life?
