The Meaning of Life  -  Terry Eagleton

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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 mod...
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2007 Uitgever: Oxford University Press 200 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0199210705 ISBN-13: 9780199210701