The Meaning of It All
Ultimate Meaning, Everyday Meaning, Cosmic Meaning, Death, and Time
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 16 June 2026
- ISBN 9780197758021
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 217x149x25 mm
- Weight 358 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
You can stock your life with important work, relationships, activities, and art, and yet, you can still ask: what's the point of it all? The Meaning of It All explains that this is because there are different kinds of meaning, and some are impossible to achieve. It then shows us how to orient our lives in light of these bittersweet truths. This witty, poignant work sheds light on the roles that value, religion, the cosmos, death, and time play in the meaning in our lives and how best to live a meaningful, mortal life in time: a meaningful life is lived in the fullness of time, accepting finitude, acknowledging our tragic losses and limitations, and making the most of Everyday Meaning.
MoreLong description:
This witty, poignant work sheds light on the role that value, religion, the cosmos, death, and time play in the meaning of our lives, and how best to live a meaningful, mortal life in time.
You can stock your life with important work, relationships, activities, and art, and yet, you can still ask: what's the point of it all? Almost every thinking person has had that question—many more than once. Granted, you're more likely to worry about the point of life when things are not going well, but you're also likely to still ask this question when you've finally received that promotion, achieved a goal, or raised your children—exactly when it seems like the question shouldn't arise.
In The Meaning of It All, Rivka Weinberg argues this is because there are different kinds of meaning, and some of them are impossible to achieve. She explains what they are, illuminates which types of meaning are possible, which are impossible, and shows us how we might orient our lives in light of these bittersweet truths. Although we all die in the end, Weinberg explains why death doesn't make life more or less meaningful. Instead, it is time that is necessary for meaning, even as it also undermines it by wearing away the fruits of our efforts and commitments. Without time, life would lack causality and direction; our efforts would be senseless, meaningless. Weinberg shows that most advice on how to reduce the agony of time's erosions cannot work. However, she also shows how we can tease out some insights from failed attempts to escape time's wounds and thereby make progress toward coping with things as they are. A meaningful life is one lived in the fullness of time, accepting finitude, acknowledging our tragic losses and limitations, and making the most of Everyday Meaning.
Rivka Weinberg unflinchingly faces the big questions about life's meaning and point, death, and our place in the grand scheme of things. Her boldly argued answers will not always cheer you up, but they will make you think. They will often surprise you, and, sometimes, they will also make you laugh.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Ultimate Meaning: We Don't Have It, We Can't Get It, and We Should Be Very, Very Sad
2. Everyday Meaning: Aim High, Aim True, Fail
3. Cosmic Meaning: What Can a Miracle Do for You?
4. Death: It's Overrated
5. Time: Timing is Everything...
