Imagining the End Mourning and Ethical Life |
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| Author:
| Lear, Jonathan |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-28747-1 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2022 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $29.95USD $53.00 |
Book Description:
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Jonathan Lear's insightful meditation joins the end of the world to the end--that is, the purpose--of living. How to persist in the face of planetary catastrophe and the realization that even cultures can die? Lear sees in mourning an avenue of thriving and turns to a handful of moral exemplars to refine our sense of the good we can yet achieve.
Jonathan Lear's insightful meditation joins the end of the world to the end--that is, the purpose--of living. How to persist in the face of planetary catastrophe and the realization that even cultures can die? Lear sees in mourning an avenue of thriving and turns to a handful of moral exemplars to refine our sense of the good we can yet achieve.