The Death of God and the Meaning of Life

✍ Scribed by Julian Young

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 245
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book begins with an historical overview of philosophers from Plato to Hegel and Marx who have believed in some sort of meaning of life. Young goes on to look at what happened when the traditional structures that provided life with meaning ceased to be believed.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 10
Before the death of God......Page 16
PLATO......Page 18
KANT AND CHRISTIANITY......Page 30
SCHOPENHAUER......Page 38
EARLY NIETZSCHE......Page 53
HEGEL......Page 66
HEGEL (CONTINUED), WITH A POSTSCRIPT ON MARX......Page 80
After the death of God......Page 90
LATER NIETZSCHE......Page 92
POSTHUMOUS NIETZSCHE......Page 106
EARLY HEIDEGGER......Page 116
SARTRE......Page 134
SARTRE (CONTINUED)......Page 151
CAMUS......Page 169
FOUCAULT......Page 182
DERRIDA......Page 197
LATER HEIDEGGER......Page 206
Further reading......Page 222
Notes......Page 225
Index......Page 242