Lost in the Cosmos
eBook - ePub

Lost in the Cosmos

The Last Self-Help Book

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Lost in the Cosmos

The Last Self-Help Book

About this book

"A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke . . . to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess." ( Los Angeles Times Book Review).
 
Filled with quizzes, essays, short stories, and diagrams, Lost in the Cosmos is National Book Award–winning author Walker Percy's humorous take on a familiar genre—as well as an invitation to serious contemplation of life's biggest questions.
 
One part parody and two parts philosophy, Lost in the Cosmos is an enlightening guide to the dilemmas of human existence, and an unrivaled spin on self-help manuals by one of modern America's greatest literary masters.

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Information

Publisher
Open Road Media
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9781453216347
Subtopic
Literature General

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. (1) The Amnesic Self
  5. (2) The Self as Nought
  6. The Self as Nought (II)
  7. (3) The Nowhere Self
  8. (4) The Fearful Self
  9. (5) The Fearful Self (II)
  10. (6) The Fearful Self (III)
  11. (7) The Misplaced Self
  12. (8) The Promiscuous Self
  13. (9) The Envious Self
  14. (10) The Bored Self
  15. (11) The Depressed Self
  16. (12) The Impoverished Self
  17. A Semiotic Primer of the Self
  18. (13) The Transcending Self
  19. (14) The Orbiting Self
  20. (15) The Exempted Self
  21. (16) The Lonely Self
  22. (17) The Lonely Self (II)
  23. (18) The Demoniac Self
  24. A Space Odyssey (I)
  25. (19) The Self Marooned in the Cosmos
  26. A Space Odyssey (II)
  27. (20) The Self Marooned in the Cosmos
  28. Biography
  29. Copyright Page