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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9788194829577 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Transcribing agency |
AL |
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Edition number |
23 |
Classification number |
616.85 |
Item number |
JAHI |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Ramin Jahanbegloo |
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60459 |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
In pursuit of unhappiness: |
Remainder of title |
Reflections on suicide |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Hyderabad |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Orient Blackswan |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2021 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
viii,96p. |
Other physical details |
PB |
Dimensions |
19x13cm. |
365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
Source of price type code |
General |
Price type code |
4940 |
Price amount |
236.00 |
Currency code |
₹ |
Unit of pricing |
295.00 |
Price note |
20% |
Price effective from |
17-10-2022 |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
In today’s world, happiness and wellbeing are often dictated to us by the State or by mass culture and shallow, consumerist and false modes of being. Not to be happy is, by definition, to be marginal, a misfit and a dissenter. In such a world, unhappiness becomes the forbidden universe of those for whom it is an act of dissent against the normative collective experience of conformism, contentment and mediocrity. It also exhorts us to closely examine the meaning of happiness. The pursuit of unhappiness, then, is to confront life in its totality, and presents an alternate horizon of truth, meaning and Value for human beings, says renowned philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo. Life is a beautiful adventure which deserves to be lived for its own sake, fully and well; but a life full of pain without an exit door is a dark and Lonely prison. Suicide, rather than being an act of despair or hatred of life, is the ultimate Act of human freedom and agency by which individuals have shown that they control their destiny, and opposed the tyranny of power, be it of society or the state. This freedom belongs to those who have the courage to live an ‘examined’ life, and strive to preserve their marginality, integrity and autonomy. In a violent, indifferent world without God and without hope, suicide offers the fragile mortal grappling with meaningless suffering a mode of transcendence and immortality, and freedom from the fear of death, which is, as Montaigne said, ‘the origin of another life…’. |
521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE |
Target audience note |
Table of Contents:<br/>I Introduction: Why Suicide?<br/>II Philosophical Suicides<br/>III Suicide and Modernity<br/>IV Poetry and Suicide: Paul Celan<br/>V The Aesthetics of Suicide: Yukio Mishima<br/>VI Conclusion: The Pursuit of Unhappiness<br/>Bibliography |
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Philosophical Suicides |
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Suicide and Modernity |
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60373 |
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Poetry and Suicide |
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60374 |
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Aesthetics of Suicide |
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60375 |
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Personal name |
JAHANBEGLOO (Ramin) |
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60376 |
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Book |