TY - BOOK AU - Tartaglia,James TI - Philosophy in a Meaningless Life: A System of Nihilism, Consciousness and Reality SN - 9781350017511 PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - Philosophy KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - Access copy available to the general public N2 - Provides an account of the nature of philosophy which is rooted in the question of the meaning of life. It makes a powerful and vivid case for believing that this question is neither obscure nor obsolete, but reflects a quintessentially human concern to which other traditional philosophical problems can be readily related; allowing them to be reconnected with natural interest, and providing a diagnosis of the typical lines of opposition across philosophy's debates. James Tartaglia looks at the various ways philosophers have tried to avoid the conclusion that life is meaningless, and in the process have distanced philosophy from the concept of transcendence UR - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/508ea26b-0000-43c4-96a7-097a61735b34 ER -