Mark C. Taylor: Field Notes from Elsewhere. Reflections on Dying and Living, Columbia University Press 2009

Powerful and personal, outspoken, touching and uncompromising book by a leading American philosopher. Mark Taylor who has demonstrated his scholarly brilliance and literary genius in s series of highly original books, lives out to the grand promise of philosophy with these accessible, nontechnically written "field notes". Examine life, create better life through thinking: such is the original call of philosophy, the torch that Taylor carries. This is content philosophy at its best. This is reflective courage on the great themes of life with full force and integrity. This is Taylor, a tremendeously productive and creative thinker of an astonishingly wide range and imagination, investigating the fundamentals of what makes us human.

Reading the book, you cry, and celebrate life more.