The Death of God and the Meaning of Life
by Julian Young
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What is the meaning of life? In today's secular, post-religious scientific world, this question has become a serious preoccupation. But it also has a long history: many major philosophers have thought deeply about it, as Julian Young so vividly illustrates in this thought-provoking second edition of The Death of God and the Meaning of Life.Three new chapters explore Søren Kierkegaard's attempts to preserve a Christian answer to the question of the meaning of life, Karl Marx's attempt to show more translate this answer into naturalistic and atheistic terms, and Sigmund Freud's dee show lessTags
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Julian Young is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University, USA. He is the author of thirteen books including Schopenhauer (Routledge, 2005); Friedrich Nietzsche; A Philosophical Biography, which won the Association of American Publishers 2010 PROSE award for philosophy; The Philosophy of show more Tragedy: From Plato to Zizek (2013); and The Death of God and the Meaning of Life (second edition 2014, Routledge). show less
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