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The meaning of life and death : ten classic thinkers on the ultimate question /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hauskeller, Michael (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2020]
Subjects:
Life.
Meaning (Philosophy)
Death.
Table of Contents:
  • The worst of all possible worlds: Arthur Schopenhauer
  • The despair of not being oneself: Soren Kierkegaard
  • The interlinked terrors and wonders of God: Herman Melville
  • The hell of no longer being able to love: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The inevitable end of everything: Leo Tolstoy
  • The joy of living dangerously: Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The dramatic richness of the concrete world: William James
  • The only life that is really lived: Marcel Proust
  • Our hopeless battle against the boundaries of language: Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • The benign indifference of the world: Albert Camus.