The meaning of life [electronic resource] : a very short introduction / Terry Eagleton.

By:

Eagleton, Terry, 1943-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Very short introductionsPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (109 p.) : ill., portsISBN:

9780191777219 (ebook) :

Subject(s):

Life

Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

128 23

LOC classification:

PR6055.A44

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Summary: 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.

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Originally published: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.