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Robertson, Ray

 
9781771960946: How to Die: A Book About Being Alive
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ISBN 10: 1771960949 ISBN 13: 9781771960946
Casa editrice: Biblioasis, 2020

Sinossi

A radical revaluation of how contemporary society perceives deathand an argument for how it can make us happy.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live, writes Montaigne in Essais, and in How to Die: A Book about Being Alive, Ray Robertson takes up the challenge. Though contemporary society avoids the subject and often values the mere continuation of existence over its quality, Robertson argues that the active and intentional consideration of death is neither morbid nor frivolous, but instead essential to our ability to fully value life. How to Die is both an absorbing excursion through some of Western literatures most compelling works on the subject of death as well as an anecdote-driven argument for cultivating a better understanding of death in the belief that, if we do, well know more about what it means to live a meaningful life.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Ray Robertson is the author of eight novels and three works of non-fiction. His work has been translated into several languages. Born and raised in Chatham, Ontario, he lives in Toronto.

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Editore
Biblioasis
Data di pubblicazione
2020
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1771960949
ISBN 13 
9781771960946
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
181
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