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A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe

English

By (author): Todd May

What makes for a good life, or a beautiful one, or, perhaps most important, a meaningful one? Throughout history most of us have looked to our faith, our relationships, or our deeds for the answer. But in A Significant Life, philosopher Todd May offers an exhilarating new way of thinking about these questions, one deeply attuned to life as it actually is: a work in progress, a journey and often a narrative. Offering moving accounts of his own life and memories alongside rich engagements with philosophers from Aristotle to Heidegger, he shows us where to find the significance of our lives: in the way we live them. May starts by looking at the fundamental fact that life unfolds over time, and as it does so, it begins to develop certain qualities, certain themes. Our lives can be marked by intensity, curiosity, perseverance, or many other qualities that become guiding narrative values. These values lend meanings to our lives that are distinct from but also interact with the universal values we are taught to cultivate, such as goodness or happiness. Offering a fascinating examination of a broad range of figures from music icon Jimi Hendrix to civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, from cyclist Lance Armstrong to The Portrait of a Lady's Ralph Touchett to Claus von Stauffenberg, a German officer who tried to assassinate Hitler May shows that narrative values offer a rich variety of criteria by which to assess a life, specific to each of us and yet widely available. They offer us a way of reading ourselves, who we are, and who we might like to be. Clearly and eloquently written, A Significant Life is a recognition and a comfort, a celebration of the deeply human narrative impulse by which we make even if we don't realize it meaning for ourselves. It offers a refreshing way to think of an age-old question, of quite simply, what makes a life worth living. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 340g
  • Dimensions: 14 x 22mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Aug 2016
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780226421049

About Todd May

Todd May is Class of 1941 Memorial Professor of the Humanities at Clemson University. He is the author of many books including Friendship in an Age of Economics Contemporary Movements and the Thought of Jacques Ranci re and Death.

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