Description
Famed critic Terry Eagleton takes a serious if often amusing look at the meaning of life. Eagleton first examines how centuries of thinkers and writers–from Marx and Schopenhauer to Shakespeare, Sartre, and Beckett–have responded to the ultimate question of meaning. He suggests, however, that it is only in modern times that the question has become problematic. But instead of tackling it head-on, many of us cope with the feelings of meaninglessness in our lives by filling them with everything from football to fundamentalism. He argues instead that the meaning of life is a matter of living in a certain way–a certain quality, depth, abundance and intensity of life.
- Author: Terry Eagleton
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Published: 2007-02-22
- Pages: 129
- ISBN-13: 9780199210701
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