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Author | : Zaki Laidi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2005-08-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134705425 |
This sophisticated book by internationally renowned theorist Zaki Laidi, tackles the problem of individual identity in a rapidly changing global political environment. He argues that it is increasingly hard to find meaning in our ever-expanding world, especially after the collapse of political ideologies such as communism. With the breakup of countries such as the former Yugoslavia, it is clear that people are now looking to old models like nationalism and ethnicity to help them forge an identity. But how effective are these old certainties in a globalized world in a permanent state of flux?
Author | : Iddo Landau |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2017-07-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0190657685 |
Does life have meaning? Is it possible for life to be meaningful when the world is filled with suffering and when so much depends merely upon chance? Even if there is meaning, is there enough to justify living? These questions are difficult to resolve. There are times in which we face the mundane, the illogically cruel, and the tragic, which leave us to question the value of our lives. However, Iddo Landau argues, our lives often are, or could be made, meaningful—we've just been setting the bar too high for evaluating what meaning there is. When it comes to meaning in life, Landau explains, we have let perfect become the enemy of the good. We have failed to find life perfectly meaningful, and therefore have failed to see any meaning in our lives. We must attune ourselves to enhancing and appreciating the meaning in our lives, and Landau shows us how to do that. In this warmly written book, rich with examples from the author's life, film, literature, and history, Landau offers new theories and practical advice that awaken us to the meaning already present in our lives and demonstrates how we can enhance it. He confronts prevailing nihilist ideas that undermine our existence, and the questions that dog us no matter what we believe. While exposing the weaknesses of ideas that lead many to despair, he builds a strong case for maintaining more hope. Along the way, he faces provocative questions: Would we choose to live forever if we could? Does death render life meaningless? If we examine it in the context of the immensity of the whole universe, can we consider life meaningful? If we feel empty once we achieve our goals, and the pursuit of these goals is what gives us a sense of meaning, then what can we do? Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World is likely to alter the way you understand your life.
Author | : Christopher Gauker |
Publisher | : Christopher Gauker |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0262072424 |
A critique of, and alternative to, the received view of linguistic communication.
Author | : William Lane Craig |
Publisher | : Crossway |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1433501155 |
This updated edition by one of the world's leading apologists presents a systematic, positive case for Christianity that reflects the latest work in the contemporary hard sciences and humanities. Brilliant and accessible.
Author | : John Holloway |
Publisher | : Pluto Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2002-03-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Offers a radical rethinking of Marx's concept of revolution that shows how we can bring about social and political change today.
Author | : Albert Camus |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2012-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0307827828 |
One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaffirming the value of personal existence, and the possibility of life lived with dignity and authenticity.
Author | : Ian Altosaar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2019-11-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781711171968 |
I started writing The Meaning Book in 2015, without knowing I was writing it.It was just something I enjoyed doing. The words came out, I was just there.It also helped me through a difficult time in my life. A dark time emotionally. Getting over a break-up with a woman I cared about deeply.While writing it, a lighter side of life started revealing itself to me.Through writing it and going through all of those deeper and darker feelings, I started realizing that the dark and the light are quite similar. And everything else in-between those two.Even more so, these are the cycles of life. We are meant to experience the so-called "good" and "bad" things in life. Or light and dark if You will.Every time You are experiencing something You perceive negative, someone out there is experiencing something more positive. And a third person is experiencing something entirely neutral. Maybe their life is standing still.At times the roles are reversed.Life is not meant to be only either-or. There is everything to life.This book is about finding meaning in all of those moments. Death, life, loss, gains. The whole spectrum.It's about seeing those things as they are. Not as we want them to be.It's about accepting where You are, accepting death and life the same. Because in many ways they are so intimately connected, it's hard to tell the difference.My hope for this book is that it will show that there is light in the darkness. As well as darkness in light. I hope it will help You accept life as it is.But a word of warning. It will not save You. Only You have the power to save Yourself. This book will guide You in the right direction.
Author | : Daniel Susskind |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2020-01-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1250173523 |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES & MCKINSEY 2020 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR One of Fortune Best Books of the Year One of Inc. Best Business Books of the Year One of The Times (UK) Best Business Books of the Year A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it From mechanical looms to the combustion engine to the first computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. But as Daniel Susskind demonstrates, this time really is different. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds of jobs are increasingly at risk. Drawing on almost a decade of research in the field, Susskind argues that machines no longer need to think like us in order to outperform us, as was once widely believed. As a result, more and more tasks that used to be far beyond the capability of computers – from diagnosing illnesses to drafting legal contracts, from writing news reports to composing music – are coming within their reach. The threat of technological unemployment is now real. This is not necessarily a bad thing, Susskind emphasizes. Technological progress could bring about unprecedented prosperity, solving one of humanity’s oldest problems: how to make sure that everyone has enough to live on. The challenges will be to distribute this prosperity fairly, to constrain the burgeoning power of Big Tech, and to provide meaning in a world where work is no longer the center of our lives. Perceptive, pragmatic, and ultimately hopeful, A World Without Work shows the way.
Author | : Robert Zaretsky |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2013-11-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0674728378 |
Exploring themes that preoccupied Albert Camus--absurdity, silence, revolt, fidelity, and moderation--Robert Zaretsky portrays a moralist who refused to be fooled by the nobler names we assign to our actions, and who pushed himself, and those about him, to challenge the status quo. For Camus, rebellion against injustice is the human condition.
Author | : Marvin Mudrick |
Publisher | : Berkshire Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2017-06-14 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1614728860 |
Books Are Not Life, But Then What Is? demonstrates how much Marvin Mudrick loved life and celebrated the dignity of life in literature. “It’s helpful to be reminded now and then,” he writes, that “while novelists persist in their noisy betrayals of human dignity, living has a longer history than reading, and truth than fiction.” Mudrick insists on seeing authors and their characters as people and he describes and judges them as frankly as if they were living among us. In this collection, we meet heroes, monsters, and every shade of character in between: Chaucer, Pepys, Rochester, Boswell, Jane Austen (and Anne Elliot), Dickens (and Pecksniff), Pushkin, Tolstoy, Kafka, Edmund Wilson, and many other novelists, scholars, and critics. We get to know each of them, so vivid are Mudrick’s quotations and commentary. Essay after essay demonstrates that good criticism can amplify both life and literature.