The Meaning of Life and Death Ten Classic Thinkers on the Ultimate Questions
- New York Bloomsbury 2020
- 236p
includes index and biblioraphy
The worst of all possible worlds: Arthur Schopenhauer...........1 The Despair of not being oneself : Kierkegaard .................23 The Interlinked terrors and wonders of God : Herman Melville ...........43 The Hell of no longer being able to love : Fyodor Dostoyevsky....................65 The Inevitable end of Everything : Leo Tolstoy ................91 The joy of Living Dangerously : Friedrich Nietzsche............113 The Dramatic Richness of the ocncrete world : William James ....................133 The only life that is really lived : Marcel proust ...................155 Our Hopeless battle against the boundaries of Language: Ludwig wittgenstein ...........179 The benign indifference of the world : Albert camus ..............201