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Pietà

Title
  1. Pietà / George Klein ; translated by Theodore and Ingrid Friedmann.
Published by
  1. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1992.
Author
  1. Klein, George, 1925-2016.

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Description
  1. 297 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. Pietà is a collection of essays by the Hungarian-Swedish biologist, George Klein, first published in Sweden in 1989. It includes nine essays by Klein, several touching broadly on the theme of whether life is worth living. The introduction opens with a quote from Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus (1942): "There is but one truly philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy."
Uniform title
  1. Pietà. English
Alternative title
  1. Pietà.
Subject
  1. Life
  2. Suffering
  3. Life
  4. Suffering
  5. Leven
  6. Lijden
Contents
  1. Suicides -- Orpheus -- The ultimate fear of the traveler returning from Hell -- The fatherless -- Biological individuality -- AIDS -- Pieta.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-293) and index.