Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life

by Jonathan Lear

Book Overview

"Imagining the End suggests, in a sober yet hopeful spirit, how mourning, rightly understood, can give meaning to our lives in the disenchanted times in which we find ourselves. In exploring the hopes that have failed us, the projects that have run into the sand, the loves we have lost, the attachments that have come to an end--a work of what amounts to creative mourning--we can develop a stance in the here and how from which the psyche...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674272595
• ISBN13: 9780674272590
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.5"