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Nothingness and the Meaning of Life - Philosophical Approaches to Ultimate Meaning Through Nothing and Reflexivity (Hardcover)
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Nothingness and the Meaning of Life - Philosophical Approaches to Ultimate Meaning Through Nothing and Reflexivity (Hardcover)
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What is the meaning of life? Does anything really matter? In the
past few decades these questions, perennially associated with
philosophy in the popular consciousness, have rightly retaken their
place as central topics in the academy. In this major contribution,
Nicholas Waghorn provides a sustained and rigorous elucidation of
what it would take for lives to have significance. Bracketing
issues about ways our lives could have more or less meaning, the
focus is rather on the idea of ultimate meaning, the issue of
whether a life can attain meaning that cannot be called into
question. Waghorn sheds light on this most fundamental of
existential problems through a detailed yet comprehensive
examination of the notion of nothing, embracing classic and
cutting-edge literature from both the analytic and Continental
traditions. Central figures such as Heidegger, Carnap,
Wittgenstein, Nozick and Nagel are drawn upon to anchor the
discussion in some of the most influential discussion of recent
philosophical history. In the process of relating our ideas
concerning nothing to the problem of life's meaning, Waghorn's book
touches upon a number of fundamental themes, including reflexivity
and its relation to our conceptual limits, whether religion has any
role to play in the question of life's meaning, and the nature and
constraints of philosophical methodology. A number of major
philosophical traditions are addressed, including phenomenology,
poststructuralism, and classical and paraconsistent logics. In
addition to providing the most thorough current discussion of
ultimate meaning, it will serve to introduce readers to
philosophical debates concerning the notion of nothing, and the
appendix engaging religion will be of value to both philosophers
and theologians.
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