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Interview
Michael Hauskeller
Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Liverpool, talks with Annika Loebig about death and democratising meaning.
In what feels like a cosmic foreshadowing of the problems we would face only half a year later, Michael Hauskeller published his book The Meaning of Life and Death in the plague-free autumn of 2019. I spoke to him about the ever-present question of how to find meaning in life even when we’re facing the end of it.
Portrait photo by Cristina Pascu-Tulbure
“I don’t think we have thought very much about dying ourselves during the pandemic, because our own death usually seems as abstract as the deaths of other people,” Hauskeller tells me during our Zoom meeting. “Death has to strike close to home to be perceived as real.
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