Last Works: Lessons in Leaving By Mark C. Taylor

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Mark C Taylor writes better than most other public intellectuals He is brilliant comprehensive suggestive probing and challenging I am not competent to review him However I have read him for years with pleasure reward and satisfying dissatisfaction I highly recommend this one 0300224397

Last Works: Lessons in Leaving By Mark C. Taylor
0300224397
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Mark C Taylor Ph. PDF Last works Wesleyan University 1968 is a philosopher of religion who chaired the Department of Religion at Columbia University 2007 2015 Previously he was Cluett Professor of Humanities at Williams College Williamstown Massachusetts where he began his teaching career in 1973. Book Last workshop For many today retirement and the leisure said to accompany it have become vestiges of a slower long lost time In a world where the sense of identity is tied to work and careers to stop working often is to become nobody In this deeply perceptive and personal exploration of last works Mark C Taylor explores the final reflections of writers and thinkers from Kierkegaard to David Foster Wallace How did they either face or avoid ending and leaving What do their lessons in ending teach us about living in the time that remains for us Some leavings brought relief even joy while others brought pain and suffering Whether the cause was infirmity impending death or simply exhaustion and ennui the ways these influential voices fell silent offer poignant examples of people negotiating the challenges of ending Throughout this profound and moving book Taylor probes how the art of living involves learning to leave gracefully Last Works Lessons in LeavingLast Works: Lessons in Leaving.

.D Religious Studies Harvard University 1973 B.A