Imagining the End

Imagining the End
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 177
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ISBN-10 : 9780674272590
ISBN-13 : 0674272595
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Download or read book Imagining the End written by Jonathan Lear and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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