Living with absurdity: A Nobleman's guide.
In A Confession, a memoir of his philosophical midlife crisis, Tolstoy recounts falling into despair after coming to believe that his life, and for that matter all human life, is meaningless and absurd. Although Tolstoy's account of the origin and phenomenology of his crisis is widely regarded as il...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy & Phenomenological Research Vol. 106; no. 3; pp. 612 - 634 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May2023
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