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Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life

Author(s) : Jonathan Lear

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Imagining the End suggests, in a sober yet hopeful spirit, how mourning, rightly understood, can give meaning to our lives in the disenchanted times in which we find ourselves. In exploring the hopes that have failed us, the projects that have run into the sand, the loves we have lost, the attachments that have come to an end—a work of what amounts to creative mourning—we can develop a stance in the here
and how from which the psyche can look outward and flourish.
J. M. Coetzee

Lear is a lovely and subtle writer, someone who has a rare capacity to introduce ways of seeing and interrogating the world that dignify our
confusion and pain while also opening up new possibilities for moving forward.
Daniel Oppenheimer, Washington Post