"When it comes to living, there's no getting out alive. But books
can help us survive, so to speak, by passing on what is most
important about being human before we perish. In The
Existentialist's Survival Guide, Marino has produced an honest and
moving book of self-help for readers generally disposed to loathe
the genre." -The Wall Street Journal Sophisticated self-help for
the 21st century-when every crisis feels like an existential crisis
Soren Kierkegaard, Frederick Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and other
towering figures of existentialism grasped that human beings are,
at heart, moody creatures, susceptible to an array of psychological
setbacks, crises of faith, flights of fancy, and other emotional
ups and downs. Rather than understanding moods-good and bad
alike-as afflictions to be treated with pharmaceuticals, this
swashbuckling group of thinkers generally known as existentialists
believed that such feelings not only offer enduring lessons about
living a life of integrity, but also help us discern an inner spark
that can inspire spiritual development and personal transformation.
To listen to Kierkegaard and company, how we grapple with these
feelings shapes who we are, how we act, and, ultimately, the kind
of lives we lead. In The Existentialist's Survival Guide, Gordon
Marino, director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf
College and boxing correspondent for The Wall Street Journal,
recasts the practical takeaways existentialism offers for the
twenty-first century. From negotiating angst, depression, despair,
and death to practicing faith, morality, and love, Marino dispenses
wisdom on how to face existence head-on while keeping our hearts
intact, especially when the universe feels like it's working
against us and nothing seems to matter. What emerges are
life-altering and, in some cases, lifesaving epiphanies-existential
prescriptions for living with integrity, courage, and authenticity
in an increasingly chaotic, uncertain, and inauthentic age.
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