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The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
Series: Very Short Introductions
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The phrase "the meaning of life" for many seems a quaint notion fit
for satirical mauling by Monty Python or Douglas Adams. But in this
spirited Very Short Introduction, famed critic Terry Eagleton takes
a serious if often amusing look at the question and offers his own
surprising answer.
Eagleton first examines how centuries of thinkers and
writers--from Marx and Schopenhauer to Shakespeare, Sartre, and
Beckett--have responded to the ultimate question of meaning. He
suggests, however, that it is only in modern times that the
question has become problematic. But instead of tackling it
head-on, many of us cope with the feelings of meaninglessness in
our lives by filling them with everything from football to sex,
Kabbala, Scientology, "New Age softheadedness," or fundamentalism.
On the other hand, Eagleton notes, many educated people believe
that life is an evolutionary accident that has no intrinsic
meaning. If our lives have meaning, it is something with which we
manage to invest them, not something with which they come ready
made. Eagleton probes this view of meaning as a kind of private
enterprise, and concludes that it fails to holds up. He argues
instead that the meaning of life is not a solution to a problem,
but a matter of living in a certain way. It is not metaphysical but
ethical. It is not something separate from life, but what makes it
worth living--that is, a certain quality, depth, abundance and
intensity of life.
Here then is a brilliant discussion of the problem of meaning by a
leading thinker, who writes with a light and often irreverent
touch, but with a very serious end in mind.
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