Last Works: Lessons in Leaving

by Mark C. Taylor

For many today, retirement and the leisure said to accompany it have become vestiges of a slower, long-lost time. In a world where the sense of identity is tied to work and careers, to stop working often is to become nobody. In this deeply perceptive and personal exploration of last works, Mark C. Taylor explores the final reflections of writers and thinkers from Kierkegaard to David Foster Wallace. How did they either face or avoid ending and leaving?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300224397
• ISBN13: 9780300224399
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"