The Meaning of Life and Death : Ten Classic Thinkers on the Ultimate Question (Hardcover)

Prelude Chapter 1: Arthur Schopenhauer and the Worst of All Possible Worlds Chapter 2: Søren Kierkegaard and the Despair of Not Being Oneself Chapter 3: Herman Melville and the Interlinked Terrors and Wonders of God Chapter 4: Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the Hell of No Longer Being Able to Love Chapter 5: Leo Tolstoy and the Inevitable End of Everything Chapter 6: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Joy of Living Dangerously Chapter 7: William James and the Dramatic Richness of the Concrete World Chapter 8: Marcel Proust and the Only Life That Is Really Lived Chapter 9: Ludwig Wittgenstein and our Hopeless Battle against the Boundaries of Language Chapter 10: Albert Camus and the Benign Indifference of the World Postlude Sources