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On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life

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Availability:In StockContributor:Ben HutchinsonPublish date:2023-12-19Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fourth EstateISBN-13:9780008588465ISBN-10:8588465UPC:9780008588465Book Category:Philosophy, Literary Criticism, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Essays, Comparative LiteratureSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCZ82PEZXW

Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.

How do we live fully?

How do we live successfully?

Adrift in an anchorless world, we often worry about where we are heading. What meaning can we hope to find in our modern, secular life? The answer, Ben Hutchinson explains, can be found by looking to writers and thinkers to help us live more purposefully, more mindfully - more fully.

Interweaving his own (mis-)adventures with those of authors such as T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust and Joan Didion, On Purpose proposes ten ways in which reading and writing encourage us to ask difficult questions, project our minds into the past and future, and see ourselves and others differently.

Engaging, uplifting and aphoristic, this book is for anyone who has lost their sense of direction or wishes to radically transform the way they live.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Fourth EstateISBN-13:9780008588465ISBN-10:8588465UPC:9780008588465Book Category:Philosophy, Literary Criticism, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Essays, Comparative LiteratureSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCZ82PEZXW

Ben Hutchinson is currently Professor of European Literature at Kent University. He writes for the TLS, Observer and Literary Review, and has published six books with the Oxford University Press, Reaktion and Chicago UP, which have been widely translated. He has lectured at institutions across the world, including at Oxford, Heidelberg, Harvard, Jerusalem, and the ENS Paris. He is also an Honorary Secretary of the British Comparative Literature Association.Ben Hutchinson is currently Professor of European Literature at Kent University. He writes for the TLS, Observer and Literary Review, and has published six books with the Oxford University Press, Reaktion and Chicago UP, which have been widely translated. He has lectured at institutions across the world, including at Oxford, Heidelberg, Harvard, Jerusalem, and the ENS Paris. He is also an Honorary Secretary of the British Comparative Literature Association.


Publisher: Fourth Estate

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Ben Hutchinson

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