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Mortalism: Readings on the Meaning of Life, The inevitability and finality of death have prompted some of the world's most poignant and memorable literature, from the Epic of Gilgamesh of ancient Babylon to the works of contemporary poets and novelists. The conviction that death means everlasting e, Mortalism: Readings on the Meaning of Life
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  • Mortalism: Readings on the Meaning of Life
  • Written by author Peter Heinegg
  • Published by Prometheus Books, 2003/05/20
  • The inevitability and finality of death have prompted some of the world's most poignant and memorable literature, from the Epic of Gilgamesh of ancient Babylon to the works of contemporary poets and novelists. The conviction that death means everlasting e
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I Introduction 9
Why I Am a Mortalist 11
II The Texts 15
1 The Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2000 B.C.E.) 15
2 The Bible (Job - Ecclesiastes [dates unknown]) 17
3 Homer (eighth century B.C.E.) 22
4 Sophocles (496?-406 B.C.E.) 31
5 Other Greek Poets 33
6 Plato (428-348 B.C.E.) 36
7 Epicurus (342?-270 B.C.E.) 39
8 Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus, 96?-55 B.C.E.) 41
9 Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus, 84-54 B.C.E.) 50
10 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8 B.C.E.) 51
11 Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 4 B.C.E.-65 C.E.) 55
12 Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus, 76-138 C.E.) 56
13 Marcus Aurelius (121-180 C.E.) 57
14 Bede the Venerable (673?-735 C.E.) 61
15 Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) 62
16 Chidiock Tichborne (d. 1586) 69
17 William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 70
18 Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) 75
19 David Hume (1711-1776) 77
20 Hume and Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) 84
21 Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) 87
22 Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) 91
23 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) 94
24 Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) 96
25 William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) 101
26 Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) 104
27 Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) 106
28 Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883) 112
29 Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) 117
30 Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) 118
31 Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) 121
32 Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) 127
33 Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) 130
34 Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) 137
35 William James (1843-1910) and Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) 141
36 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) 143
37 Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) 149
38 George Santayana (1863-1952) 151
39 Miguel de Unamuno (1863-1936) 152
40 Marcel Proust (1871-1922) 159
41 Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) 161
42 Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) 165
43 James Joyce (1882-1941) 168
44 D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) 172
45 Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) 177
46 Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) 178
47 Philip Larkin (1922-1985) 180
48 L. E. Sissman (1928-1976) 187
49 Richard Selzer (1938-) 193
50 Margaret Atwood (1939-) 202
51 James Fenton (1949-) 204
52 Gjertrud Schnackenberg (1953-) 206
53 Epilogue: William R. Clark (1938-) 210


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