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What is the meaning of life? More power, wealth, sex, love, chocolate, football, intellectual contemplation or just living the day? Does life have a meaning? Or is it just a postmodern fiction, like all meanings?

In the urban, pragmatic political and cultural world of today's capitalism, where meaning is rapidly evaporating, can we talk about common or embedded meanings in our lives, despite everything?

In this short "introductory" book, Terry Eagleton questions the meaning of life in an area abandoned by the human sciences and invaded by popular culture and the industry of meaning. Discussing the meaning of life with the linguistic, ethical, cultural and political indicators that constitute the life of meaning, Eagleton's narrative includes Shakespeare's theatrical characters, Wittgenstein's "language games", Schopenhauer's "will", Heidegger's "nothing", Sartre's The anxiety in , Samuel Beckett's "maybe" and Freud's "unconscious" also join in parts. This book by Eagleton, who interprets concepts and values such as human self-realization, personal satisfaction, happiness as social practices, love and virtue within a moral genealogy extending from Aristotle to Marx, is a call to thought for those who still worry about life with its vital indicators. Life, or as it is said, "O Life!"



Number of Pages: 144

Year of Printing: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Details Publications

First Printing Year: 2012

Number of Pages: 144

Language Turkish