Melancholic Joy
On Life Worth Living
Today, we find ourselves surrounded by numerous reasons to despair, from loneliness, suffering and death at an individual level to societal alienation, oppression, sectarian conflict and war. No honest assessment of life can take place without facing up to these facts and it is not surprising that more and more people are beginning to suspect that the human story will end in tragedy. However, this focus on despair does not paint a complete and accurate picture of reality, which is also inflected with beauty and goodness. Working with examples from poetry and literature, including Virginia Woolf and Jack Gilbert and the films of Terrence Malic…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-350-17776-5
- EAN: 9781350177765
- Produktnummer: 35680258
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'906 KB
Über den Autor
Brian Treanor is Professor of Philosophy and Charles S. Casassa Chair of Social Values at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, USA. Among his previous books are Emplotting Virtue, Aspects of Alterity, as well as Carnal Hermeneutics and Interpreting Nature.
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