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Product Identifiers
Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262044358
ISBN-13
9780262044356
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27050059570
Product Key Features
Book Title
Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths : a Realist's View of the Human Condition
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Essays
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Philosophy, Social Science, Psychology, Literary Collections
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
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Trade
LCCN
2020-002123
Reviews
"This work will be welcomed by any reader interested in the complexity of the human condition, and will especially appeal to students of the arts and literature, psychology, and ethics." -- CHOICE
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
128
Table Of Content
Preface xiii Executive Summary: A Rhyming Lore of the Human Condition xvii 1 Action 1 The native hue of resolution. The pale cast of thought. And lose the name of action. 2 Ambition 5 Pelf and place. A small goat. 3 Anxiety 9 Possession. What you know you don''t know can hurt you. What--me worry? Yes. 4 Beauty 13 The imminence of a revelation. Evolutionary bait and switch. Between the world and a grain of sand. The pathos of things. The seven sad senses of beauty. 5 Children (The Raising of) 19 Be good. Plan B. Other ways to be. 6 Complexity 23 The dark forest. A spotlight shines on an enigma. Back in the forest. 7 Consciousness 29 The Tempest in a teapot. The insubstantial pageant. We are such stuff as dreams are made on. The splendor and the misery. 8 Death 35 The tragic sense of life. The Switch. Still The Switch. Only in silence the word. 9 Empathy 41 To em or not to em. Us and Them. From ordinary household objects. 10 Emptiness 45 Einstein meets the Buddha. Enter Borges. 11 Evolution 49 The mountains and the monsoon. A universal history of iniquity. Definitely maybe. 12 Existence 55 A bit of Talmudic existentialism. I think, therefore I ache. The mindfulness ruse. 13 Fear 59 Where the wild things are. True grit. We have seen the enemy. 14 Free Will 63 Complications. Misapprehension. Chance. Necessity. Implications. 15 Happiness 69 Machineries of joy and sorrow. Happiness fast and slow. The dark side of happiness. 16 Home 73 No home. No homeland. No rest. No end. 17 Language 79 The tentacles of intent. The Ring of Fire. Gaming the Game. Big Two-Hearted River. 18 Love 87 What a lovely way to burn. Che cosa e amor. Tuqburni. 19 Mathematics 93 Unreasonable effectiveness. Ineffectiveness of reason. But time and chance happeneth to them all. 20 Memory 99 The waters of Naihe. Some work of noble note. Across the universe. The Time Warp again. All memory and fate. 21 Morality 105 Silentio Dei. On the genealogy of morals. Human, all too human. Away from Omelas. 22 Old Age 113 Comfortably numb. Catabasis. Cassandra''s golden years. Volver. 23 Parents (The Liberation from) 119 Be good. Be you. Be back. 24 Perception 123 Use your illusion. Umwelten. How things really are. 25 Politics 129 The tools of the trade. A shining city on the hill. Into the catacombs. News from Nowhere. 26 Power 137 The great chains of being. The invisible hand. Beyond Freedom and Dignity. 27 Poverty 141 Cui bono? Double double jeopardy. UBI bene? 28 Regret 145 Nothing, really? The ledger. Fools and heroes. 29 Religion 149 A rose by any other name. Hanging onto the tiger''s tail. The heart of a heartless world. Pride and prejudice. 30 Science 155 Truth to power. The two towers. Power-proofing science. 31 Stupidity 159 Human, all too human. An eclipse of common sense. The wages of folly. Worse than a fool. The stupidity of crowds. The unholy trinity. 32 Suffering 165 Mindsets. Varieties. Mechanisms. Options. 33 Technology 171 Comfortably numb. The fiery sword. Cura te ipsum. 34 Thinking 175 Transitional. Treacherous. Transgressional. 35 Time 181 The sandstorm. Faster, slower, true. The tyranny of now. The arrow of time. 36 Truth 185 A melancholy pearl. Ministries of information. Into the well. 37 War 189 A room with a view. After Babel. Blowing in the wind. 38 Youth 195 Another difficult dilemma. Silver spoon or not. Choice and chance. Janus introversus. Afterword 201 Just dropped in (to see what condition my condition was in) Acknowledgments 203 Notes 205 References 271 Index 311
Synopsis
An expert on happiness presents an engaging and inspiring guide to making sense of the human condition via brief essays on concepts from action, to love, to thought, to youth. This book offers a guide to human nature and human experience--a reference book for making sense of life. In thirty-eight short, interconnected essays, Shimon Edelman considers the parameters of the human condition, addressing them in alphabetical order, from action (good except when it's not) to love (only makes sense to the lovers) to thinking (should not be so depressing) to youth (a treasure). In a style that is by turns personal and philosophical, at once informative and entertaining, Edelman offers a series of illuminating takes on the most important aspects of living in the world., This book is a kind of reference volume, a partial one for sure, for making sense of the human world and of the hard work of human soul-making or, simply, life. No synthesis is offered for the list of inconvenient truths collected here, for the simple reason that there isn't-nor can there be-a single underlying cause that makes life what it is. If this book has a central thesis, it's one that is neither a revelation nor a secret: the human condition has much room for improvement. Working out possible ways of improving it is left as an exercise for the reader. Book jacket., A reference book for making sense of life--from action (good except when it's not) to thinking (depressing) to youth (a treasure). This book offers a guide to human nature and human experience--a reference book for making sense of life. In thirty-eight short, interconnected essays, Shimon Edelman considers the parameters of the human condition, addressing them in alphabetical order, from action (good except when it's not) to love (only makes sense to the lovers) to thinking (should not be so depressing) to youth (a treasure). In a style that is by turns personal and philosophical, at once informative and entertaining, Edelman offers a series of illuminating takes on the most important aspects of living in the world. Edelman avoids reductive synthesis, staying clear of both exuberance and negativity. Drawing on an eclectic range of sources--quoting from a pre-Islamic Bedouin poem on one page, from Gogol on the next, citing both Borges and Marx--Edelman offers insights into the bright and dark sides of our nature. About anxiety, he observes, "All sentient beings are capable of physiological stress response, but it takes special skills to also do anxiety." Happiness is "a commodity that Americans pursue with almost as much verve as oil." Human language, on the other hand, is "an essential window into the sublime." All in all, human nature has much room for improvement. Working out ways to improve it, accompanied by this guide, is an exercise for the reader., A reference book for making sense of life-from action (good except when it's not) to thinking (depressing) to youth (a treasure). This book offers a guide to human nature and human experience-a reference book for making sense of life. In thirty-eight short, interconnected essays, Shimon Edelman considers the parameters of the human condition, addressing them in alphabetical order, from action (good except when it's not) to love (only makes sense to the lovers) to thinking (should not be so depressing) to youth (a treasure). In a style that is by turns personal and philosophical, at once informative and entertaining, Edelman offers a series of illuminating takes on the most important aspects of living in the world. Edelman avoids reductive synthesis, staying clear of both exuberance and negativity. Drawing on an eclectic range of sources-quoting from a pre-Islamic Bedouin poem on one page, from Gogol on the next, citing both Borges and Marx-Edelman offers insights into the bright and dark sides of our nature. About anxiety, he observes, "All sentient beings are capable of physiological stress response, but it takes special skills to also do anxiety." Happiness is "a commodity that Americans pursue with almost as much verve as oil." Human language, on the other hand, is "an essential window into the sublime." All in all, human nature has much room for improvement. Working out ways to improve it, accompanied by this guide, is an exercise for the reader.
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