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Title: Well worth the read
Review: Tie this in with Wittgenstein (I am thinking of Ray Monk's book here) and others -- like Theodore Adorno (Can one live after Auschwitz?) to try to build a picture of what was happening in the minds of intellectuals in Europe from WWI through and after WWII.I would also tie this in with the mindset of Kierkegaard and others post-Hegel to see how they are dealing with the unhappy consciousness. Was no one besides Hegel able to see what Hegel meant?This is well worth still considering since the task -- overcoming negativity after becoming a self-consciousness aware of self-consciousness aware of itself and what this means -- is still a tragic fight for many of us. Perhaps only more tragic for those who never get to fight it.But what about those of us that do? Today instead of Jung we have folks like Yalom.Then compare these to folks like C.S. Lewis. What makes the difference so stark?Quotations:"True humor begins when a man ceases to take himself seriously." p. 177
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