 | What's It All About?: Philosophy and the Meaning of Life by Julian Baggini
Buy new: $11.00 / Used from: $5.00 Humanistic analysis. There is no cosmic purpose, but life can be meaningful.
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 | Meanings of Life by Roy F. Baumeister PhD
Buy new: $30.60 / Used from: $20.10 A psychologist looks at the question empirically. Suggests four basics of meaning.
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 | The Birth and Death of Meaning by Ernest Becker
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $4.99 Anthro-psychological levels of meaningfulness in life.
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 | Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition by Wendell Berry
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.64 Excellent essay against biological reductionism. Strong argument for value and meaning of life.
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 | The Book of Job by Stephen Mitchell
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $1.18 Wisdom literature reading of capriciousness of life.
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 | The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life by Amby Burfoot
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $5.65 Discovering meaning in athletic/contemplative activity.
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 | Happiness: Classic and Contemporary Readings in Philosophy
Buy new: $20.34 / Used from: $10.30 Numerous selections explore relationship between happiness and meaning.
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 | The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays by Albert Camus
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $4.44 Meaning--and maybe even happiness--in wrestling with the absurd.
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 | On the Meaning of Life (Thinking in Action) by John Cottingham
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $6.23 An excellent overview of the topic, part of an equally excellent (but under-utilized) series.
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 | On the Meaning of Life by Will Durant
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $8.59 100 public figures reflect on the question.
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 | The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Terry Eagleton
Buy new: $8.54 / Used from: $4.56 Written with Eagleton's usual lucidity, erudition, and insight.
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 | Self Expressions: Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life (Philosophy of Mind Series) by Owen Flanagan
Buy new: $60.00 / Used from: $2.55 Does a denial of transcendence lead to nihilism? Flanagan says no. For the philosophically trained reader.
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 | Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $4.20 Classic statement by the founder of logotherapy.
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 | The Good Life (Hackett Publishing Co.)
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $5.99 A good selection of philosophers on the "good life" and its relationship to meaningfulness.
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 | The Meaning of Life: A Reader
Buy new: $20.40 / Used from: $18.50 Contemporary philosophers reflect on the question.
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 | Six Myths About the Good Life: Thinking About What Has Value by Joel J. Kupperman
Buy new: $8.27 / Used from: $4.98 |
 | Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics) by Lao Tzu
Buy new: $9.09 / Used from: $5.03 A meaningful life is one led in harmony with the Tao.
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 | Meditations (Penguin Classics) by Marcus Aurelius
Buy new: $7.92 / Used from: $6.34 Roman Taoism, of sorts.
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 | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $4.99 The movie.
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 | Meaning Of Life Screenplay by Monty Python
Buy used from: $2.49 The script.
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 | Money and the Meaning of Life by Jacob Needleman
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $1.98 Strange defense of money-making and purposefulness. A disturbing justification of greed, or a realistic approch to purposefulness?
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 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.68 An American classic.
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 | Plato: Apology (Greek Edition) by Plato
Buy new: $13.45 / Used from: $9.19 A meaningful life is an examined life.
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 | The Pursuit of Love: The Meaning in Life (Volume 2) by Irving Singer
Buy new: $20.70 / Used from: $3.45 The importance of love to a meaningful life.
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 | No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life (Parts 1 & 2) by Robert Solomon
Buy used from: $9.99 Series of lectures by one of the most insightful of America's recent philosophers.
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 | On the Meaning of Life (Wadsworth Philosophers Series) by Garrett Thomson
Buy used from: $33.19 Decent introduction.
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 | Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel De Unamuno
Buy used from: $4.28 Life's meaning is found in the tension between reason and passion.
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 | Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy by Eric G. Wilson
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $2.34 Meaning is possible even in--in fact, because of--transience.
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 | The Death of God and the Meaning of Life by Julian Young
Buy new: $115.00 / Used from: $75.00 Can life be meaningful in a postmodern world?
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