from
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and
Philology
http://bit.ly/abibliog
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
The Meaning
of life
Adler, Alfred. El sentido de la vida.
Traducción directa del alemán por el Dr. F. Oliver Brachfeld. Con un estudio
preliminar sobre el "Proceso de
asimilación de la Psicología Individual en España" por el Dr. Ramón Sarró
[9-29]. (Biblioteca de Antropología, dirigida por el Dr. Ramón Sarró).
Barcelona: Luis Miracle, 1935. 2nd ed. 1937. 3rd ed. 1941. 4th ed. 1948.*
_____. "Preámbulo." In Adler, El
sentido de la vida. Barcelona: Luis Miracle, 1935. 1948. 31-36.*
_____. "II. Medios y caminos
psicológicos para la exploración del estilo de vida." In Adler, El
sentido de la vida. Barcelona: Luis Miracle, 1935. 1948. 49-58.*
_____. "XV. El sentido de la
vida." In Adler, El sentido de
la vida. Barcelona:
Luis Miracle, 1935. 1948. 251-66.* (Evolutionism, God, religion, future of
mankind).
Amorós,
Andrés. "¿Por qué vale la pena vivir? (Woody
Allen: Manhattan)." In Amorós, Momentos mágicos de la literatura. (La
vida). Madrid: Castalia, 1999. 371-74.*
_____. Momentos mágicos de la literatura. (Literatura y sociedad, 65). Madrid: Castalia, 1999.* (Love,
time, death, reality and dream, art, beginnings, life).
Artime, Manuel. "Paul Ricœur y la
posibilidad de dotar de sentido a un mundo post-hegeliano." In Con Paul Ricœur: Espacios de interpelación.
Tiempo. Dolor. Justicia. Relatos. Ed. Teresa Oñate, José Luis Díaz Arroyo,
Paloma O. Zubía, Marco Antonio Hernández Nieto, L. David Cáceres. Madrid: Dykinson, 2016. 72-82.*
Baumeister,
Roy F, and K. D. Vohs. "The Pursuit of Meaningfulness in Life." In Handbook of Positive Psychology. Ed. C.
R. Snyder and S. J. Lopez. New York: Oxford UP, 2002. 608-18.
Benatar, David. The
Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions. Oxford: Oxford UP,
2017.*
_____. El dilema
humano: Una guía sin adornos sobre los grandes
interrogantes de la vida. Madrid: Alianza, 2022.
_____. "Terrible News." From The Human Predicament. In García Landa, Vanity Fea 24 Feb. 2019.*
https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2019/02/terrible-news.html
2019
Berenguer,
Jaime. "El sentido de la vida y el apoyo a la secesión de Cataluña." El Asterisco
1 April 2018.* (Baumeister and Vohs).
https://www.elasterisco.es/el-sentido-de-la-vida/
2018
Blanks,
David. Rev. of The Meaning of Human
Existence, by E. O. Wilson. Journal
of Big History 1.1 (2017).
https://journalofbighistory.org/index.php/jbh/article/view/27/19
2017
Bueno, Gustavo. El sentido de la vida. Oviedo: Pentalfa, 1996. (Persons, ethics,
euthanasia).
http://fgbueno.es/gbm/gb96sv3.htm
2013
_____. El sentido de la vida. Online ed. 2009.
Callejo
Gallego, Javier. "El sentido de mi tiempo." Paper presented at the XI
Congreso de la FES. 2013.
http://fes-sociologia.com/el-sent299o-de-mi-tiempo/congress-papers/299/
2013
Chew,
Samuel C. The Pilgrimage of Life. New
Haven (CT): Yale UP, 1962.
Dennett,
Daniel C. Darwin's Dangerous Idea:
Evolution and the Meaning of Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
_____. Darwin's Dangerous Idea. London: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 1995?
Eagleton,
Terry. The Meaning of Life. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007.
_____. El sentido de la vida. Trans. Albino Santos Mosquera. Barcelona:
Paidós, 2008.*
Eucken, Rudolf Ch. Las bases de la vida y el ideal de la vida.
(Trans. of Grundlinien einer neuen Lebensanschauung).
_____. Der Sinn und Wert des Lebens. 1908.
Frankl,
Viktor. Man's Search for Meaning. 1946.
_____. El hombre en busca de sentido.
_____. En el principio era el sentido: Reflexiones
en torno al ser humano. Barcelona: Paidós, 2000.
García Landa, José Ángel. "Mind
at the End of Its Tether." (H.G. Wells).
In García Landa, Vanity Fea 19
Nov. 2012.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/mind-at-end-of-its-tether.html
2012
_____.
"The Meaning of Human Existence—A Conspectus." Vanity Fea 21 April 2015.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/the-meaning-of-human-existence-e-o.html
2015
_____.
"E. O. Wilson's The Meaning of Human
Existence: A Conspectus." Social
Science Research Network 3 July 2015.*
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2626377
2015
_____.
"The Meaning of Human Existence—A Conspectus." Vanity Fea 21 April 2015.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/the-meaning-of-human-existence-e-o.html
2015
_____.
"E. O. Wilson's The Meaning of Human
Existence: A Conspectus." Social
Science Research Network 3 July 2015.*
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2626377
2015
_____.
"E. O. Wilson's The Meaning of Human
Existence: A Conspectus." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 4 July 2015.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2015/07/e-o-wilsons-meaning-of-human-existence.html
2015
_____. "The Meaning of Human Existence—A
Conspectus." Vanity Fea 21 April
2015.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/the-meaning-of-human-existence-e-o.html
2015
_____. "E. O. Wilson's The Meaning of Human Existence: A Conspectus." Social Science Research Network 3 July
2015.*
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2626377
2015
_____. "E. O. Wilson's The Meaning of Human Existence: A Conspectus." In García
Landa, Vanity Fea 4 July 2015.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2015/07/e-o-wilsons-meaning-of-human-existence.html
2015
_____. "E. O. Wilson's The Meaning of Human Existence: A Conspectus." Academia 20 Feb. 2017.*
http://www.academia.edu/31529791/WilsonConspectus.pdf
2017
_____. "E. O. Wilson's The Meaning of Human Existence: A Conspectus." ResearchGate 21 Feb. 2017.*
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jose_Angel_Garcia_Landa/contributions
2017
_____. "E. O. Wilson's The Meaning of Human Existence: A Conspectus." Net Sight de José Angel García Landa 20 June 2022.*
http://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/WilsonConspectus.html
2022
https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/WilsonConspectus.pdf
https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/WilsonConspectus2.pdf
2023
Gee, Henry.
The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings
of Human Evolution. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2013.
Hale, P. J. "The Search for Purpose in a
Post-Darwinian Universe: George Bernard Shaw, 'Creative Evolution', and Shavian
Eugenics: 'The Dark Side of the Force'." History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 28.2 (2006): 191-213.
Online at PubMed.*
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17702503
2019
Harari, Yuval Noah. "20.
Significado. La vida no es un relato." In Harari, 21 lecciones para el siglo XXI. Trans. Joandomènec Ros. Barcelona:
Penguin Random House – Debate, 2018. 295-335.*
Hegel, G. W. F.
"Introd. general, II. La idea de la historia y
su realización." In Hegel, Lecciones
sobre la Filosofía de la Historia Universal. Madrid: Alianza, 2008.
59-126.* (1. La idea: a) El mundo espiritual. b) El concepto del espíritu. c)
El contenido de la historia universal. d) El proceso del espíritu universal.
e). El fin último; 2. Los medios de la realización: a) La individualidad. b)
Los individuos, como conservadores; c) Los individuos históricos. d) El destino
de los individuos. e) El valor del individuo. 3. El material de la realización.
a) El Estado. b) el estado de derecho. c) El Estado y la religión. d) Las
esferas de la vida del pueblo. e) La constitución).
Keltner,
Dacher. Born to Be Good: The Science of a
Meaningful Life. New York: Norton, 2009.
Kronman,
Anthony T. Education's End: Why Our
Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life. New Haven
Yale UP, 2007.
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300122886
2007
Lain Entralgo, Pedro. Qué es el hombre: Evolución y sentido de la
vida. Oviedo: Ediciones Nobel,
1999.
Ledesma, Felipe. "Sentido y
desenlace sobre la vida como género literario." In Congreso Fenomenología y Ciencias Humanas: Santiago de Compostela,
24-28 de Septiembre de 1996. Ed. Mª Luz Pintos Peñaranda and José Luis
González López. Santiago de Compostela: U de Santiago de Compostela, 1998.
341-46.*
López Sáenz, Mª Carmen. "La
expresión creadora del sentido de la experiencia." Co-herencia
12.23 (Jul.-Dec. 2015): 43-70.
Peterson, Jordan B. Maps of Meaning.
_____. 12 Rules
for Life. 2018.
Ruiz,
Esperanza. "Whiskas, Satisfyer y Lexatin." El Manifiesto 9 Dec. 2020.*
https://elmanifiesto.com/sociedad/388057319/Whiskas-Satisfyer-y-Lexatin.html
2020
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine
de. Un sens à la vie. Essay. Paris: Gallimard,
Schmid,
Wolf. "22. Lev Tolstoj: Die Dialektik der Seele in der Suche nach dem
Sinn." In Schmid, Mentale
Ereignisse. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. 405-7.*
Schopenhauer,
Arthur. II.2.11. "Caracterización de la voluntad
de vivir." In Schopenhauer, El Mundo
como Voluntad y Representación (Volumen Segundo). Barcelona: RBA
Coleccionables, 2014. 381-94.*
_____. II.4.6. "Sobre la futilidad y
los sufrimientos de la vida." In Schopenhauer, El Mundo como Voluntad y Representación (Volumen Segundo).
Barcelona: RBA Coleccionables, 2014. 619-36.*
Stiegler, Bernard. Ce qui
faut que la vie vaut la peine d'être vécue.
VanderWheele,
Tyler J., Ph.D. "What Brings
Meaning and Purpose in Life?" Psychology
Today (Human Flourishing) 27 Jan. 2020.*
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/human-flourishing/202001/what-brings-meaning-and-purpose-in-life
2020
Weinberg,
Steven. Dreams of a Final Theory. London: Vintage, 1993.
_____. El sueño de una teoría final: La búsqueda de las leyes fundamentales de
la naturaleza. Barcelona:
Crítica, 2003.
Wilson, E.
O. "1. The Meaning of Meaning." In Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence. New York and London:
Norton-Liveright, 2014. 11-16.*
_____.
"15. Alone and Free in the Universe." In Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence. New York and London:
Norton-Liveright, 2014. 173-88.*
_____. The Meaning of Human Existence. New York
and London: Norton-Liveright, 2014.* (I. The Reason We Exist. II. The Unity of
Knowledge. III. Other Worlds. IV. Idols of the Mind. V. A Human Future).
_____. The Meaning of Human Existence. Amazon Kindle, 2014.
_____.
"1. The Meaning of Human Existence." In Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences. Ed. Joseph
Carroll, Dan P. McAdams and E. O. Wilson. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016. 3-8.*
Wong, Paul
T. P., and Prem S. Fry. The Human Quest
for Meaning: A Handbook of Psychological Research and Clinical Applications.
(Personality and Clinical Psychology). London: Erlbaum, 1998.
Audio
Ingold,
Tim, and Frédéric Keck. "Debate: Anthropology Comes to Life." Savors en Multimédia 9 June 2012.*
http://savoirsenmultimedia.ens.fr/expose.php?id=884
2013
Harari,
Yuval Noah. "Les fictions qui donnent sens à notre vie." Audio. From 21 leçons pour
le XXI siècle, Chapitre 20 "La vie n'est pas un récit." Online audio. YouTube (Deus sive natura) 30 April 2019.*
https://youtu.be/5TnnyTCa15w
2019
Blogs
The Meaning of Life
Blog (P. J. Reece)
http://www.pjreece.ca/blog/wordpress/
Films
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn. Dir. Phil Alden.
Cast: Robin Williams, Mila Kunis, Peter Dinklage, Melissa Leo. USA, 2014.*
Halt auf freier Strecke. Dir. Andreas Dresen. Written by Andreas Dresen and
Cooky Ziesche. Cast: Steffi Kühnert, Milan Peschel, Talisa Lilly Lemke, Mika
Seidel, ursula Werner, Marie Rosa Tietjen, Otto Mellies, Chrristine Schorn,
Bernhardt Schütz, Thorsten Merten, Inka Friedrich. Photog. Michael Hammon.
Prod. des. Susanne Hopf. Ed. Jörg Hauschild. Germany / France, 2011. (Spanish
title: Parada en plena vía).
Irrational Man. Written and directed by Woody Allen. Cast: Jamie
Blackley (Roy), Joaquin Phoenix (Abe), Parker Posey (Rita), Emma Stone (Jill),
Betsy Aidem (Jill’s Mother) and Ethan Phillips (Jill’s Father). Photog. Darius
Khondji; edited by Alisa Lepselter; production design by Santo Loquasto;
costumes by Suzy Benzinger; produced by Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum and
Edward Walson; released by Sony Pictures Classics, 2015.*
Monty Python's The
Meaning of Life.
Dir. Terry Jones. Written and starred by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry
Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin. With Carol Cleveland, Simon
Jones, Patricia Quinn, Judy Loe, Andrew MacLachlan, mark Holmes, Valerie
Whittington, Jennifer Franks, Imogen Bickford-Smith, Angela Mann, Peter
Lovstrom, George Silver, Chris Grant.
Prod. John Goldstone. Director of Animation and special sequence, Terry
Gilliam. Photog. Peter Hannan. Ed. Julian Doyle. Prod. des. Harry Lange.
Costumes by Jim Acheson. Choreog. Arlene Phillips. Special effects George
Gibbs. Prod. manager David Wimbury. Made by the Monty Python Partnership. UK,
1983. VHS.*
The Razor's Edge. Dir. Edmund Goulding. Screenplay by Lamar
Trotti, based on Somerset Maugham's novel. Cast: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney,
John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall, Lucile Watson, Frank
Latimore. USA, 1946. (Oscar for Baxter).
The Razor's Edge. Dir. John Byrum. Written by John Byrum and
Bill Murray, based on Somerset Maugham's novel. Cast: Bill Murray, Theresa
Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, James Keach, Peter Vaughan, Bryan
Doyle-Murray, Saced Jaffrey. USA, 1984.
Journals
Ultimate Reality and Meaning. Periodical. U of Toronto P.
Literature
Bacon, Francis. "The Life of Man." In
The Golden Treasury. Ed. F. T.
Palgrave. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, n.d. 46-47.
_____. "The Life of Man." Luminarium. 2010.*
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/bacon/lifeman.php
2022
Johnson,
Samuel. The History of Rasselas, Prince
of Abisinia, a Tale. 2 vols. 1759.
_____. Rasselas. Engravings after R. Westall.
Sharp, 1817.
_____. Rasselas. Ed. Oliver F. Emerson. 1895.
_____. Rasselas. Ed. Robert W. Chapman. 1927.
_____. The History of Rasselas, Prince of
Abyssinia. Ed. with an introduction by D. J. Enright. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976.*
_____. Rasselas: Príncipe de Abisinia. Trans. Javier de Zengotita.
(Colección Oasis, 30). Barcelona: Reguera, 1945.*
_____. La historia de Rasselas, príncipe de Abisinia. Ed., trans. and introd. Mª Luisa Pascual Garrido. Córdoba:
Berenice, 2007.
Milton, John. "L’Allegro" and
"Il Penseroso." In Milton, The Complete Poems.
(Penguin Classics). London: Penguin, 2004)
_____.
"On his Blindness." In The
Poetical Works of John Milton. London: Bliss Sands & Co., n.d. [c.
1898] 360.*
_____.
"Sonnet XVI ('When I consider how my light is spent')." From Miscellaneous Poems. 1673. In The Poems of John Milton. Ed. H.
Darbishire. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1961. 85.*
Perec,
Georges. La Vie mode d'emploi. Novel. 1978.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. La Nausée. Novel.
Teller,
Janne. Intet. 2000. (Danish ministry
of culture prize for best book of the year).
_____. Nada. Trans. Carmen Freixenet. (Biblioteca Furtiva). Barcelona:
Seix Barral, 2011.*
Tolstoy, Lev. The Death of Ivan
Ilych and Other Stories. 1886. New York: New American Library, 1960.
_____. The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories.
Trans. Aylmer Maude and J. D. Duff. New York: Signet Classics, 1960.
_____. The Death of Ivan Ilyich. (Penguin 60s
Classics). Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Video
"Atheist
Experience #414: The Meaning of Life." YouTube
(DonBakerTheAtheist) 29 May 2011.*
http://youtu.be/s2plVXGKQyE
2013
Brand,
Russell. "Full Uncut Jordan Peterson Interview: This Conversation Changed
My Mind!" Video. YouTube (Russell Brand) 2 Sept. 2023.* (Psychopathy, control, mass culture, meaning
of life, Religion, storytelling).
https://youtu.be/YG4Y6s_sFmg
2023
"Epic
Roundtable Discussion on Metaphysics." (Oliver
Sacks, Rupert Sheldrake, Daniel C. Dennett, Stephen Toulmin, Freeman Dyson,
Stephen Jay Gould. Moderator: Wim Kayzer). 1993. YouTube (lecturesbeyondbeyond) 25 Nov. 2015.*
https://youtu.be/Mtm-TirttFA
2016
Esteban, Javier. "El sentido de la
vida, con Fernando Savater." Interview. (Encuentros con lo sutil). YouTube (Encuentros con lo sutil) 23
Nov. 2015.*
https://youtu.be/P6pO9J2hJ9o
2016
Fridman,
Lex. "Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, the Big Bang, Aliens, Death, and
Meaning - Lex Fridman Podcast #232." Video. YouTube (Lex Fridman) 20 Oct. 2021.* (Consciousness, future of
humankind, space exploration, cosmology).
https://youtu.be/98HZanvAJ8Y
2022
_____.
"Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning | Lex Fridman
Podcast #313." Video interview. YouTube (Lex Fridman) 19 Aug.
2022.* (Religion, Belief, Personality,
Meaning of Life).
https://youtu.be/sY8aFSY2zv4
2022
García-Baró, Miguel. "Teoría del
bien." Lecture at Fundación Juan March 24 April 2012.*
http://www.march.es/conferencias/anteriores/voz.aspx?id=2836&l=1
2013
Gijón, Francisco.
"La verdad como tarea." Video. Vitruvio Formación.*
https://www.vitruvioformacion.com/
2022
Leiter,
Brian. "Nietzsche on the Terrible Truth and Aesthetic
Justification of Life." Lecture at Davidson College. YouTube (Brad Younger) 10 May 2014.*
http://youtu.be/qUF5OfKVPwo
2014
Martín Jiménez, Luis Carlos. "Núcleo
y síntesis del materialismo filosófico." Video lecture. (Los Ensayos
materialistas de Gustavo Bueno, 50 años después XVIII Curso de Filosofía de la
Universidad de la Rioja en Santo Domingo de la Calzada, lunes 18 al viernes 22
de julio de 2022). YouTube
(fgbuenotv) 21 July
2022.* (Schools, Dialectics, Empires, Institutions, Religion, Action, Critical
thinking, Conflicts, Christianity, Transcendence, Meaning of life, World,
Reason).
https://youtu.be/9t35197jV-0
2022
"El
materialismo filosófico de Gustavo Bueno: Sobre su obra El sentido de la vida (1996)." YouTube (Jesús G. Maestro) 1
Oct. 2016.*
https://youtu.be/O7myzyaNvb0
2016
Wilson, E.
O. "On the Shoulders of Giants." Address at the World Science
Festival, 2 June 2012. YouTube (World
Science Festival) 29 July 2015.*
https://youtu.be/DWLoluq-HCo
2017
See also
Life (Human life experience); Development; Existence; Existentialism;
Existential anguish.
