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The Death of God and the Meaning of Life (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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The Death of God and the Meaning of Life (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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What is the meaning of life? In today's secular, post-religious
scientific world, this question has become a serious preoccupation.
But it also has a long history: many major philosophers have
thought deeply about it, as Julian Young so vividly illustrates in
this thought-provoking second edition of The Death of God and the
Meaning of Life. Three new chapters explore Soren Kierkegaard's
attempts to preserve a Christian answer to the question of the
meaning of life, Karl Marx's attempt to translate this answer into
naturalistic and atheistic terms, and Sigmund Freud's deep
pessimism about the possibility of any version of such an answer.
Part 1 presents an historical overview of philosophers from Plato
to Marx who have believed in a meaning of life, either in some
supposed 'other' world or in the future of this world. Part 2
assesses what happened when the traditional structures that give
life meaning began to erode. With nothing to take their place,
these structures gave way to the threat of nihilism, to the
appearance that life is meaningless. Young looks at the responses
to this threat in chapters on Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus,
Foucault and Derrida. Fully revised and updated throughout, this
highly engaging exploration of fundamental issues will captivate
anyone who's ever asked themselves where life's meaning (if there
is one) really lies. It also makes a perfect historical
introduction to philosophy, particularly to the continental
tradition.
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