The meaning of life in the modern world

Author: Abdullah bin Abdulrahman Al-Wuhaibi Binding: Cover Volumes: One Paper: Shamooh Size: 17×24 Summary: Why has the "meaning of life" become an crisis for the contemporary individual? The crisis of meaning in the modern world is linked to the emergence and developments of individualism and self-centeredness. This book traces with description and analysis the context of this crisis and its intellectual and social roots, and reveals its manifestations in contemporary Western culture, in literature, art, psychoanalysis, in relationships of "love," patterns of religiosity, and in the changing connotations of pain, loneliness, and death. It offers a critical treatment of the effects of changes in awareness of self, body, and time on the meaning of individual life, and also outlines the distinctive role of the Quranic answer to the question of meaning.