Imagining the End : : Mourning and Ethical Life / / Jonathan Lear.
A leading philosopher explores the ethics and psychology of flourishing during times of personal and collective crisis.Imagine the end of the world. Now think about the end—the purpose—of life. They’re different exercises, but in Jonathan Lear’s profound reflection on mourning and meaning, these two...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 We Will Not Be Missed!
- 2 Transience and Hope: A Return to Freud in a Time of Pandemic
- 3 Exemplars and the End of the World
- 4 When Meghan Married Harry: A Comment on the Humanities
- 5 Good Mourning in Gettysburg and Hollywood
- 6 The Difficulty of Reality and a Revolt against Mourning
- 7 Gratitude and Meaning
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index