![]() ![]() ![]() Aristotle, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Beckett and Marx are hauled into the witness box, but anyone hoping to learn much about the meaning of life from this crabbed little book will be disappointed. But is there an answer And do we even really know what were asking Eagleton suggests that the problem of. Author: Terry Author: Terry Eagleton Publisher: USA Oxford University Press Binding: Paperback Publication Date: June 20, 2008. How society could be arranged along these lines, or what kind of society would best allow such groupings to flourish (er – a liberal state?), he doesn't go into. We have all wondered about the meaning of life. ![]() This is what Terry Eagleton has undertaken, however, and he has done a pretty good job. He stresses the social nature of our identity more than a classical liberal would, but his only alternative to pick-your-own-values liberalism is the idea that a jazz group is "an image of the good life". Attempting to answer the question What is the meaning of life. The phrase the meaning of life for many seems a quaint notion fit for satirical mauling by Monty Python or Douglas Adams. Eagleton pre-emptively announces on page one that he's not a philosopher, but anyone tackling this subject is de facto a philosopher the question is, how good? Eagleton indulges in some needlessly laboured analysis of terms, but is less interested in philosophical argument than in sticking it to his enemies, those pesky liberal humanists.ĭespite heavy sniping, he can't find much wrong with the liberal view that we construct meaning(s) for our own lives. ![]()
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