{"product_id":"life-death-and-other-inconvenient-truths-isbn-9780262542784","title":"Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths","description":"\u003cb\u003eA guide for making sense of life--from action (good except when it's not) to thinking (depressing) to youth (a treasure).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers a guide to human nature and human experience--a reference book for making sense of life. In thirty-eight short, interconnected essays, Shimon Edelman considers the parameters of the human condition, addressing them in alphabetical order, from action (good except when it's not) to love (only makes sense to the lovers) to thinking (should not be so depressing) to youth (a treasure). In a style that is by turns personal and philosophical, at once informative and entertaining, Edelman offers a series of illuminating takes on the most important aspects of living in the world.Preface xiii \u003cbr\u003eExecutive Summary: A Rhyming Lore of the Human Condition xvii \u003cbr\u003e1 Action 1 \u003cbr\u003eThe native hue of resolution. The pale cast of thought. And lose the name of action. \u003cbr\u003e2 Ambition 5 \u003cbr\u003ePelf and place. A small goat. \u003cbr\u003e3 Anxiety 9 \u003cbr\u003ePossession. What you know you don’t know can hurt you. What—me worry? Yes.\u003cbr\u003e4 Beauty 13 \u003cbr\u003eThe imminence of a revelation. Evolutionary bait and switch. Between the world and a grain of sand. The pathos of things. The seven sad senses of beauty. \u003cbr\u003e5 Children (The Raising of) 19 \u003cbr\u003eBe good. Plan B. Other ways to be. \u003cbr\u003e6 Complexity 23 \u003cbr\u003eThe dark forest. A spotlight shines on an enigma. Back in the forest. \u003cbr\u003e7 Consciousness 29 \u003cbr\u003eThe Tempest in a teapot. The insubstantial pageant. We are such stuff as dreams are made on. The splendor and the misery. \u003cbr\u003e8 Death 35 \u003cbr\u003eThe tragic sense of life. The Switch. Still The Switch. Only in silence the word. \u003cbr\u003e9 Empathy 41 \u003cbr\u003eTo em or not to em. Us and Them. From ordinary household objects. \u003cbr\u003e10 Emptiness 45 \u003cbr\u003eEinstein meets the Buddha. Enter Borges. \u003cbr\u003e11 Evolution 49\u003cbr\u003eThe mountains and the monsoon. A universal history of iniquity. Definitely maybe. \u003cbr\u003e12 Existence 55 \u003cbr\u003eA bit of Talmudic existentialism. I think, therefore I ache. The mindfulness ruse. \u003cbr\u003e13 Fear 59\u003cbr\u003eWhere the wild things are. True grit. We have seen the enemy. \u003cbr\u003e14 Free Will 63\u003cbr\u003eComplications. Misapprehension. Chance. Necessity. Implications. \u003cbr\u003e15 Happiness 69 \u003cbr\u003eMachineries of joy and sorrow. Happiness fast and slow. The dark side of happiness. \u003cbr\u003e16 Home 73 \u003cbr\u003eNo home. No homeland. No rest. No end. \u003cbr\u003e17 Language 79 \u003cbr\u003eThe tentacles of intent. The Ring of Fire. Gaming the Game. Big Two-Hearted River. \u003cbr\u003e18 Love 87 \u003cbr\u003eWhat a lovely way to burn. Che cosa e amor. Tuqburni. \u003cbr\u003e19 Mathematics 93 \u003cbr\u003eUnreasonable effectiveness. Ineffectiveness of reason. But time and chance happeneth to them all. \u003cbr\u003e20 Memory 99\u003cbr\u003eThe waters of Naihe. Some work of noble note. Across the universe. The Time Warp again. All memory and fate. \u003cbr\u003e21 Morality 105 \u003cbr\u003eSilentio Dei. On the genealogy of morals. Human, all too human. Away from Omelas. \u003cbr\u003e22 Old Age 113 \u003cbr\u003eComfortably numb. Catabasis. Cassandra’s golden years. Volver. \u003cbr\u003e23 Parents (The Liberation from) 119 \u003cbr\u003eBe good. Be you. Be back. \u003cbr\u003e24 Perception 123 \u003cbr\u003eUse your illusion. Umwelten. How things really are.\u003cbr\u003e 25 Politics 129 \u003cbr\u003eThe tools of the trade. A shining city on the hill. Into the catacombs. News from Nowhere. \u003cbr\u003e26 Power 137 \u003cbr\u003eThe great chains of being. The invisible hand. Beyond Freedom and Dignity.\u003cbr\u003e27 Poverty 141 \u003cbr\u003eCui bono? Double double jeopardy. UBI bene? \u003cbr\u003e28 Regret 145 \u003cbr\u003eNothing, really? The ledger. Fools and heroes. \u003cbr\u003e29 Religion 149 \u003cbr\u003eA rose by any other name. Hanging onto the tiger’s tail. The heart of a heartless world. Pride and prejudice. \u003cbr\u003e30 Science 155 \u003cbr\u003eTruth to power. The two towers. Power-proofing science. \u003cbr\u003e31 Stupidity 159 \u003cbr\u003eHuman, all too human. An eclipse of common sense. The wages of folly. Worse than a fool. The stupidity of crowds. The unholy trinity. \u003cbr\u003e32 Suffering 165\u003cbr\u003eMindsets. Varieties. Mechanisms. Options. \u003cbr\u003e33 Technology 171 \u003cbr\u003eComfortably numb. The fiery sword. Cura te ipsum. \u003cbr\u003e34 Thinking 175 \u003cbr\u003eTransitional. Treacherous. Transgressional. \u003cbr\u003e35 Time 181 \u003cbr\u003eThe sandstorm. Faster, slower, true. The tyranny of now. The arrow of time. \u003cbr\u003e36 Truth 185 \u003cbr\u003eA melancholy pearl. Ministries of information. Into the well. \u003cbr\u003e37 War 189 \u003cbr\u003eA room with a view. After Babel. Blowing in the wind. \u003cbr\u003e38 Youth 195 \u003cbr\u003eAnother difficult dilemma. Silver spoon or not. Choice and chance. Janus introversus. \u003cbr\u003eAfterword 201 \u003cbr\u003eJust dropped in (to see what condition my condition was in) \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 203 \u003cbr\u003eNotes 205\u003cbr\u003eReferences 271 \u003cbr\u003eIndex 311Shimon Edelman is Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. He is the author of \u003cu\u003eComputing the Mind, The Happiness of Pursuit\u003c\/u\u003e, and other books.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302205149413,"sku":"NP9780262542784","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262542784.jpg?v=1767731425","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/life-death-and-other-inconvenient-truths-isbn-9780262542784","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}