Recommended Reading

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Robert C. Bartlett & Susan D. Collins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2012.

Beauvoir, Simone de. Philosophical Writings, ed. M. A. Simons. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.

Camus, Albert. Myth of Sisyphus, trans. Justin O’Brien. New York: Vintage Books, 1955.

Carlyle, Thomas. Sartor Resartus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1834/1987.

Ferry, Luc. Learning to Live: A User’s Manual. Edinburg: Cannongate Books, 2010.

Frankl, Victor. Man’s Search for Meaning. New York: Washington Square Press, 1963.

Haidt, Jonathan. Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. New York: Basic Books, 2006.

Hyman, Gavin. A Short History of Atheism. New York: I. B. Tauris & Co., 2010.

Kierkegaard, Søren. Either/Or, trans. Howard V. Hong & Edna H. Hong. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Klemke, E. D. The Meaning Life. 4th ed. Edited by Steven M. Kahn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Landau, Iddo. Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue, 3rd ed. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.

May, Todd. A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Metz, Thaddeus. Meaning in Life: An Analytic Study. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Sartre, Jean-Paul. Existentialism Is a Humanism, trans. Carol Macomber. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

Smith, Emily Esfahani. The Power of Meaning. New York: Broadway Books, 2017.

Taylor, Charles. The Ethics of Authenticity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Taylor, Charles. A Secular Age, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.

Tolstoy, Leo. Confession, trans. David Patterson. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1983.

Wilson, Colin. The Outsider. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1967.