Summary
Pushing Time Away Peter Singer Granta, (pounds) 15.99 There are few thinkers today who occupy themselves with questions such as what is happiness? or what constitutes the good, fulfilling life? Such issues, however, intrigued David Oppenheim and underlie this idiosyncratic biography written by his grandson.
It may seem paradoxical to discuss happiness in relation to the experiences of an Austrian Jew who perished in the Holocaust, but both Oppenheim and Singer, best-known as the theorist of the animal- rights movement, are analysts of the values that make a life fully human.See the full content of this document
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Of Happiness and the Holocaust
The lives of the two are intertwined in a remarkable work that has no interest in objectivity. Singer uses letters...
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