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Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories

Paperback • 2001 • English

Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories

By Adam Phillips

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About the book

Adam Phillips has been called "the psychotherapist of the floating world" and "the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness." His style is epigrammatic; his intelligence, electric. His new book, Darwin's Worms, uses the biographical details of Darwin's and Freud's lives to examine endings-suffering, mortality, extinction, and death. Both Freud and Darwin were interested in how destruction conserves life. They took their inspiration from fossils or from half-remembered dreams. Each tol...Show more

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ISBN

9780465056767

Publisher

BASIC BOOKS

Published year

2001

Language

English

Original title

Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories

Format

Paperback

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