On Purpose - Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Hutchinson
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.09.2024
• EAN: 9780008588496
• ISBN: 978-0-00-858849-6
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, REFERENCE / Personal & Practical Guides, Self-help & personal development, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Literary essays, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Philosophy: logic, Practical advice: Life hacks / handy tips