Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories, (Paperback)

from MiserableLibrarian

The author (a British psychotherapist) outlines the beliefs of Darwin and Freud in "the permanence only of change and uncertainty; that the only life is the life of the body, so that death, in whatever form it takes, is a piece with life." He calls others to give up their attempts at permanence, ...

from JerryColonna

I can't recommend this book highly enough. There are three discrete sections. The first is a meditation on suffering and life in general. Phillips explores the question of our relationship to suffering through the lenses of Freud and Darwin (two seemingly incompatible figure who, remarkably and t...

from JerryColonna

I can't recommend this book highly enough. There are three discrete sections. The first is a meditation on suffering and life in general. Phillips explores the question of our relationship to suffering through the lenses of Freud and Darwin (two seemingly incompatible figure who, remarkably and t...