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    <body><![CDATA[A good, fast read. I liked the idea of discussing the phrase &quot;the meaning of life&quot; in less than 90 pages. I liked Eagleton's approach to the task, by dissecting the phrase word by word (what do you mean by &quot;meanng&quot;? what do you mean by &quot;life&quot;?). He points out, very astu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54245830">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was intrigued when I read a review for this book shortly after it came out. The concept of searching for - and usually fruitlessly - a meaning in life is a relatively new concept (from maybe the last couple of hundred years of our age of reason). The idea that a modern writer, in a non-religious c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31217567">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mr. Eagleton summarizes many of the ideas and approaches relating to the title question. He does this as a guide surveying the many philosophers who have thought deeply about our place in this cosmos. While many of us may find the question a cause for angst, Terry finds room for humor during the sea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55552839">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not sure what it would mean to like or not a book about meaning. It is a coherent account? Sure. He is right? How would I know? Eagleton's little work reminds me of the work of a friend of his <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Herbert McCabe" title=" Herbert McCabe"> Herbert McCabe</a>, and in particular <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= The Good Life by McCabe" title=" The Good Life by McCabe"> The Good Life by McCabe</a>. The big exception is that McCabe reads Aq...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38895206">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book can be read in 2 hours and gives a very brief and basic sense of what Eagleton thinks the meaning of life is: love your neighbor.<br/><br/>But what about God? He gives the first commandment short shrift...(in my opinion)<br/><br/>Who should we love first: God or our neighbor?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mein 100stes Buch: The Meaning of Life. Netter Zufall. Danke für die Empfehlung, Till. Bin schon sehr gespannt, ob ich Sinnstifendes übersehen hab. Wovon Terry &amp; Friends zu berichten wissen. Oder ob am Ende doch wieder &quot;42&quot; rauskommt. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[TOTALLY enjoyed this well written book. highly recommended but only for those who want to sort out the reality of this serious question that continues to haunt human imagination. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;It is sport, not religion, which is now the opium of the people. Indeed, in the world of Christian and Islamic fundamentalism, religion is less the opium of the people than the crack of the masses&quot; (47).<br/>&quot;What we need is a form of life which is completely pointless, just as the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15572909">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great short canter through the philosophy of the meaning of life. I always find Eagleton refreshing, insightful and generative and this book meets these criterion. Not a self help book by the way but a witty and iconoclastic approach the subject, that is occasionally heavy but more often ironic. Goo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37361172">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[From all his jocular discussion of post-modernism at the beginning, I was surprised when the book turned into a defense of Aristotle's theory that virtuous living is a key component of happiness.  But I found myself agreeing with him.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Rambles on for a bit about &quot;meaning&quot; and its various significations, the categorical method of questioning, etc. But  ends with a metaphor that is quite possibly the best analogy for life.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book. What's the meaning of life? That there is meaning. It wanders through the thoughts of some of history's great thinkers and philosophers. It ends just like it should. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[consise, excellent study of issues relating to how it might be possible to co-habitate together in meaningful way. Good analysis of Wittenstein remarks.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Terry Eagleton, funny, irreverent, iconoclastic, this isnt his best but it gives you so much to think about that i am going to read it again.]]></body>
    
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