- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 162 pages)
- Summary
- "Imagine the end of the world. Think about the ends, the purpose, of life. They're different exercises, but as Jonathan Lear seeks to show in this set of reflections on mourning and meaning, they're also connected: related ways of exploring deep questions about individual and collective values and the nature of the good. In Imagining the End Lear explores how mourning can help us thrive, the role of moral exemplars in shaping our sense of the good, and the place of gratitude in human life. Along the way, he touches on figures as diverse as Aristotle, Abraham Lincoln, Sigmund Freud, and Meghan and Harry"--
- Uniform Title
- Imagining the end (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Imagining the end (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- One: We Will Not Be Missed! -- Two: Transience and Hope: A Return to Freud in a Time of Pandemic -- Three: Exemplars and the End of the World -- Four: When Meghan Married Harry: A Comment on the Humanities -- Five: Good Mourning in Gettysburg and Hollywood -- Six: The Difficulty of Reality and a Revolt against Mourning -- Seven: Gratitude and Meaning
- LCCN
- 2022005773
- OCLC
- ssj0002707666
- Author
Lear, Jonathan.
- Title
Imagining the end [electronic resource] : mourning and ethical life / Jonathan Lear.
- Imprint
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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