On Purpose On Purpose

On Purpose

Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life

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Publisher Description

Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.

How do we live fully?

How do we live successfully?

Adrift in an anchorless world, we often worry about where we are heading. What meaning can we hope to find in our modern, secular life? The answer, Ben Hutchinson explains, can be found by looking to writers and thinkers to help us live more purposefully, more mindfully – more fully.

Interweaving his own (mis-)adventures with those of authors such as T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust and Joan Didion, On Purpose proposes ten ways in which reading and writing encourage us to ask difficult questions, project our minds into the past and future, and see ourselves and others differently.

Engaging, uplifting and aphoristic, this book is for anyone who has lost their sense of direction or wishes to radically transform the way they live.

Reviews

Praise for Ben Hutchinson:

'An exemplary essayistic mishmash, part history, part criticism, part memoir. His tone is conversational, though distinctly tutorial, and he is not afraid to adopt the approach of the personal trainer or life coach' Hal Jensen, TLS

About the author

Ben Hutchinson is an award-winning essayist, critic and professor of European literature. A consultant editor at the Times Literary Supplement, he is the author of seven books, including The Midlife Mind and Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction. His writing appears regularly in the national and international press.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2023
14 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
208
Pages
PUBLISHER
Fourth Estate
SIZE
5
MB

More Books by Ben Hutchinson

Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction
2018
Rainer Maria Rilke's <I>The Book of Hours</I> Rainer Maria Rilke's <I>The Book of Hours</I>
2008
The Midlife Mind The Midlife Mind
2020
Rainer Maria Rike, 1893-1908: Poetry as Process - A Poetics of Becoming Rainer Maria Rike, 1893-1908: Poetry as Process - A Poetics of Becoming
2017
Lateness and Modern European Literature Lateness and Modern European Literature
2016