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"Critical philosophical investigation of the question: What is the meaning of life? Discusses views prominent in analytic philosophy, phenomenology, and existentialism, drawing especially on the thought of Tolstoy, Wittgenstein, Sartre, and Camus and exploring in depth the insights these thinkers offer regarding their own difficulties concerning the meaning of life"--Provided by publisher.
Part I: The problem of life -- Tolstoy confesses publicly and tells the story of Ivan Ilych -- A philosophical question -- An existential question -- An ancient question -- A modern question -- A defiant question -- A solution that chases a dream -- Part II: The sense of the world -- Wittgenstein turns to philosophy -- The logical limits of the world -- The cognitive limits of the world -- The ethical limits of the world -- The meaning of life as the sense of the world -- Mystical experience as a substitute for ethics -- Overcoming the problem of life -- What cannot be put into words but makes itself manifest -- Assessing Wittgenstein's view of the meaning of life -- Part III: Inventing a meaning to life -- Sartre takes the train to Dijon -- Life journeys and personal self-identity -- Attributing personal meaning to life -- A phenomenological ontology -- Freedom as a problematic human mode of existence -- An existentialist ethics -- An existentialist conception of meaning -- Affirmation through criticism -- Part IV: Loss of meaning from life -- Camus tells the stories of Meursault and of Sisyphus -- Sartre disputes camus -- Hare disputes Camus -- Nagel disputes Camus -- Meaning blindness and alien life-forms -- The soul of life -- The moral of Camus' story -- Epilogue: poor man's wisdom.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-332) and index.