The meaning of life : a very short introduction / Terry Eagleton.

We have all wondered about the meaning of life. Is there an answer? Is it up to us? Or is the question a bogus one? Terry Eagleton takes a witty, stimulating look at this most compelling of questions - and proposes his own answer. - ;'Philosophers have an infuriating habit of analysing question...

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Main Author: Eagleton, Terry, 1943-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:Very short introductions ; 186.
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Summary:We have all wondered about the meaning of life. Is there an answer? Is it up to us? Or is the question a bogus one? Terry Eagleton takes a witty, stimulating look at this most compelling of questions - and proposes his own answer. - ;'Philosophers have an infuriating habit of analysing questions rather than answering them', writes Terry Eagleton, who, in these pages, asks the most important question any of us ever ask, and attempts to answer it. So what is the meaning of life? In this witty, spirited, and stimulating inquiry, Eagleton shows how centuries of thinkers - from Shakespeare and Scho.
Physical Description:1 online resource (109 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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