A World of Fragile Things

Psychoanalytic perspective on what Western philosophers from Socrates to Foucault have called "the art of living." How are our lives meaningful? What is the relationship of loss to creativity? How can we best engage and overcome our suffering? From Socrates to Foucault, Western philosophers have sought to define "the art of living"-the complex craft of human existence that elicits our thoughtful participation, and the idea that even though death escapes our control, life is not something that si