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Are our lives meaningful, or meaningless? Is our inevitable death a bad thing? Would immortality be an improvement? Would it be better to hasten our deaths by suicide? Many people ask these big questions—and some people are plagued by them. Analytic philosophers have said relatively little about these important questions. The Human Predicament invites listeners to take a clear-eyed and unfettered view of the human condition.

Les essais composant ce livre explorent six d’entre elles, à savoir la dignité humaine, l’intelligence, la liberté, le bonheur, la mort et la beauté.

De la même façon qu'il a su rendre la philosophie accessible à tous, Lev Fraenckel, alias « Serial Thinker », expose avec acuité ces enjeux intemporels. Convoquant tour à tour des figures majeures de la philosophie – Aristote, Nietzsche, Marx… – et des références culturelles contemporaines, il plonge au cœur de nos contradictions et éclaire nos choix, nos croyances et nos désirs.