Lost in the Cosmos
The Last Self-Help Book
Published on 29. March 2011
256 pages
978-1-4532-1634-7 (ISBN)
Description
"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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Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- (1) The Amnesic Self
- (2) The Self as Nought
- The Self as Nought (II)
- (3) The Nowhere Self
- (4) The Fearful Self
- (5) The Fearful Self (II)
- (6) The Fearful Self (III)
- (7) The Misplaced Self
- (8) The Promiscuous Self
- (9) The Envious Self
- (10) The Bored Self
- (11) The Depressed Self
- (12) The Impoverished Self
- A Semiotic Primer of the Self
- (13) The Transcending Self
- (14) The Orbiting Self
- (15) The Exempted Self
- (16) The Lonely Self
- (17) The Lonely Self (II)
- (18) The Demoniac Self
- A Space Odyssey (I)
- (19) The Self Marooned in the Cosmos
- A Space Odyssey (II)
- (20) The Self Marooned in the Cosmos
- Biography
- Copyright Page
