The Meaning of Life
Subtitle: A Very Short Introduction
Series: Very Short Introductions
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 31, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9780199532179
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Modernism; Religion & Beliefs; Western philosophy; Psychology of Religion; Religious; Philosophy / Religious; Philosophy
First sentence: Philosophers have an infuriating habit of analysing questions rather than answering them, and this is how I want to begin.
Description: We have all wondered about the meaning of life. But is there an answer? And do we even really know what we're asking? Eagleton suggests that the problem of the meaning of life arose with modernity. He looks at the cultural and philosophical reasons for this.