The Meaning of Life: A Very Short IntroductionWe have all wondered about the meaning of life. But is there an answer? And do we even really know what we're asking? Terry Eagleton takes a stimulating and quirky look at this most compelling of questions: at the answers explored in philosophy and literature; at the crisis of meaning in modern times; and suggests his own solution to how we might rediscover meaning in our lives. |
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2 The problem of meaning | 33 |
3 The eclipse of meaning | 56 |
4 Is life what you make it? | 78 |
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