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Nothingness and the Meaning of Life : Philosophical Approaches to Ultimate Meaning Through Nothing and Reflexivity.

What is the meaning of life? Does anything really matter? In the past few decades these questions, perennially associated with philosophy in the popular consciousness, have rightly retaken their place as central topics in the academy. In this major contribution, Nicholas Waghorn provides a sustained...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Waghorn, Nicholas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A Crisis in Meaning; Part 1 Getting Us Nowhere
  • The Geography of Nothingness; Chapter 1 Heidegger and the Evolution of das Nichts; Chapter 2 Strange Bedfellows: Carnap and Derrida's Critiques of the Heideggerian Nothing; Part 2 Think Nothing Of It
  • The Conceptuality of Nothingness; Chapter 3 Nothing Under the Microscope; Chapter 4 To Be AND Not to Be
  • Is that the Answer?; Chapter 5 Feeling Nothing: Is the Affective Effective?; Chapter 6 Arguing
  • Avoid!; Part 3 Nothing To Do With Me
  • The Application of Nothingness.
  • Chapter 7 The Quest for MeaningChapter 8 Divine Inspiration? On Religion as a Source of Meaning; Concluding Speculations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.