Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Oxford Handbook of Meaning in LifeCondition: NewISBN-10: 0190063505EAN: 9780190063504ISBN: 9780190063504Publisher: Oxford University Press IncFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/13/2022Description: A topic of universal concern that touches everyone, philosophy of meaning in life has roots in spiritual and religious movements in almost all cultures. Many of the issues dealt with in these movements, such as human vocation, the life worth living, our relation to what is "greater" than us, and our encounters with suffering and with death, are also discussed (even if in a different manner) in the philosophy of meaning in life. However, only recently has the topic received elaborate discussion within analytic philosophy, and become a thriving field of research. This volume presents thirty-two chapters by leading authorities in their respective subfields on a wide array of subjects in meaning in life research. The chapters are organized into six sections. Section I focuses on ways of conceptualizing life's meaning. It discusses, among other issues, whether meaning in life should be understood objectively or subjectively, the relation between meaningfulness and importance, and whether meaningful lives should be understood narratively. Section II, Meaning in Life, Science, and Metaphysics, presents opposing views on whether neuroscience sheds light on life's meaning, inquires whether determinism must render life meaningless, and explores the relation between time, personal identity, and meaning in life. Section III considers life's meaning from both atheist and theist perspectives, and examines the relation between meaningfulness, mysticism and transcendence. Section IV, Ethics and Meaning in Life, examines (among other issues) whether meaningful lives must be moral, how important forgiveness is for meaning, the implications of life's meaningfulness or meaninglessness for procreation ethics, and whether animals can have meaningful lives. Section V compares philosophical and psychological research on life's meaning, explores the experience of meaningfulness, and discusses the relation between meaningfulness and desire, love, and gratitude. Finally, section VI, Living Meaningfully: Challenges and Prospects, elaborates on meaning in life and topics such as suicide, suffering, education, optimism and pessimism. Many of the chapters deal with topics that have never before been discussed in the literature. This handbook presents ground-breaking work within a rapidly developing field and offers the first published scholarly companion to the philosophical study if meaning in life.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 256mmItem Length: 180mmItem Width: 40mmItem Weight: 1232gContributor: Iddo Landau (Edited by)Author: Iddo LandauGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Oxford HandbooksTopic: Society & CultureRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life
Title: The Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life
ISBN-10: 0190063505
EAN: 9780190063504
ISBN: 9780190063504
Release Date: 04/13/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Iddo Landau (Edited by)
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 544 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 1.8 in
Subject: General
Publication Year: 2022
Item Weight: 43.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Philosophy
Author: Iddo Landau
Item Length: 10 in
Series: Oxford Handbooks Ser.
Item Width: 7 in
Format: Hardcover
