"Philosophers have an infuriating habit of analysing questions rather than answering them," writes Terry Eagleton (Professor of English at the University of Manchester), who, in these pages, asks the most important question any of us ever ask, and attempts to answer it.
So what is the meaning of life? in this witty, spirited, and stimulating inquiry, Eagleton shows how centuries of thinkers - from Shakespeare and Schopenhauer to Marx, Sartre, and Beckett - have tackled the question. Refusing to settle for the bland and boring, Eagleton reveals with a mixture of humour and intellectual rigour how the question has become particularly promlematic in modern times.� Instead of addressing in head-on, we take refuge from feelings of 'meaninglessness' in our lives by filling them with a multitude of different things: from football and sex, to New Age religions and fundamentalism.
