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Mostly Grave Thoughts - On Mortality and Other Matters (Paperback)
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Mostly Grave Thoughts - On Mortality and Other Matters (Paperback)
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In this new collection, Eugene Goodheart, scholar of English
literature, essayist, and public intellectual, reveals himself in a
way that will interest readers already familiar with his expansive
body of work as well as those new to his writing. Rising above the
particular, the essays focus on themes of universal importance. The
opening essay, "Whistling in the Dark," is a meditation on the
gravest of subjects: aging and mortality. The chapters that follow
are a series of reflections on teaching, retirement, illness,
marriage, fatherhood, friendship, regret, indignation, sports, and
writing activities that make up a life. The book wrestles with the
question of what constitutes the reality of the self in the present
when many writers view the self as an illusion. Each essay alludes
to writers of the past and present who have addressed the question
of what constitutes the self. Looming largest is Montaigne, the
inventor of the modern personal essay. This book focuses on
universally important subjects, including an individual's place in
a community, family, fatherhood, growing older, being Jewish, and
friendship. Written in a vividly accessible manner, this book
reaches out to a general audience.
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