Imagining the end : mourning and ethical life / Jonathan Lear.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lear, Jonathan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bereavement--Moral and ethical aspects.

Bereavement.

End of the world--Moral and ethical aspects.

End of the world.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Jonathan Lear's insightful meditation joins the end of the world to the end--that is, the purpose--of living. How to persist in the face of planetary catastrophe and the realization that even cultures can die? Lear sees in mourning an avenue of thriving and turns to a handful of moral exemplars to refine our sense of the good we can yet achieve.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1 We Will Not Be Missed!

2 Transience and Hope: A Return to Freud in a Time of Pandemic

3 Exemplars and the End of the World

4 When Meghan Married Harry: A Comment on the Humanities

5 Good Mourning in Gettysburg and Hollywood

6 The Difficulty of Reality and a Revolt against Mourning

7 Gratitude and Meaning

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780674287471

0674287479

OCLC:

1343103816