A Fragile Life: Accepting Our Vulnerability

by Todd May

It is perhaps our noblest cause, and certainly one of our oldest: to end suffering. Think of the Buddha, Chuang Tzu, or Marcus Aurelius: stoically composed figures impervious to the torments of the wider world, living their lives in complete serenity--and teaching us how to do the same. After all, isn't a life free from suffering the ideal? Isn't it what so many of us seek? Absolutely not, argues Todd May in this provocative but compassionate book...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022643995X
• ISBN13: 9780226439952
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"