The meaning of life in the modern world

Why has the "meaning of life" become a crisis for the contemporary individual? The idea in the modern world is summarized by the emergence of individualistic variations, centered around the self. This book follows with description and analysis the context of this crisis and its intellectual and social roots, and reveals its manifestations in contemporary Western culture, in fiction, art, psychoanalysis, and in relationships of "love," and patterns of religiosity. It discusses how the meanings of pain, loneliness, and death are controlled, and offers a critical treatment of the effects of changes in awareness of the self, body, and time on the meaning of individual life. It also outlines the distinctive features of the Qur'anic response to the question of the meaning of life in the modern world.