"Imagining the End suggests, in a sober yet hopeful spirit, how
mourning, rightly understood, can give meaning to our lives in the
disenchanted times in which we find ourselves. In exploring the
hopes that have failed us, the projects that have run into the
sand, the loves we have lost, the attachments that have come to an
end-a work of what amounts to creative mourning-we can develop a
stance in the here and how from which the psyche can look outward
and flourish. As he did earlier in his explorations of what it can
mean to hope, Jonathan Lear here expands and deepens our
understanding of what it can mean to mourn." -J. M. Coetzee, Nobel
Laureate A leading philosopher explores the ethics and psychology
of flourishing during times of personal and collective crisis.
Imagine the end of the world. Now think about the end-the
purpose-of life. They're different exercises, but in Jonathan
Lear's profound reflection on mourning and meaning, these two kinds
of thinking are also connected: related ways of exploring some of
our deepest questions about individual and collective values and
the enigmatic nature of the good. Lear is one of the most
distinctive intellectual voices in America, a philosopher and
psychoanalyst who draws from ancient and modern thought, personal
history, and everyday experience to help us think about how we can
flourish, or fail to, in a world of flux and finitude that we only
weakly control. His range is on full display in Imagining the End
as he explores seemingly disparate concerns to challenge how we
respond to loss, crisis, and hope. He considers our bewilderment in
the face of planetary catastrophe. He examines the role of the
humanities in expanding our imaginative and emotional repertoire.
He asks how we might live with the realization that cultures, to
which we traditionally turn for solace, are themselves vulnerable.
He explores how mourning can help us thrive, the role of moral
exemplars in shaping our sense of the good, and the place of
gratitude in human life. Along the way, he touches on figures as
diverse as Aristotle, Abraham Lincoln, Sigmund Freud, and the
British royals Harry and Meghan. Written with Lear's characteristic
elegance, philosophical depth, and psychological perceptiveness,
Imagining the End is a powerful meditation on persistence in an age
of turbulence and anxiety.
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