{"product_id":"the-existentialists-survival-guide-how-to-live-authentically-in-an-inauthentic-age-9780062436009","title":"The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"When it comes to living, there's no getting out alive. But books can help us survive, so to speak, by passing on what is most important about being human before we perish. In \u003cem\u003eThe Existentialist's Survival Guide, \u003c\/em\u003eMarino has produced an honest and moving book of self-help for readers generally disposed to loathe the genre.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSophisticated self-help for the 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e century--when every crisis feels like an existential crisis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoren Kierkegaard, Frederick Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and other towering figures of existentialism grasped that human beings are, at heart, moody creatures, susceptible to an array of psychological setbacks, crises of faith, flights of fancy, and other emotional ups and downs. Rather than understanding moods--good and bad alike--as afflictions to be treated with pharmaceuticals, this swashbuckling group of thinkers generally known as existentialists believed that such feelings not only offer enduring lessons about living a life of integrity, but also help us discern an inner spark that can inspire spiritual development and personal transformation. To listen to Kierkegaard and company, how we grapple with these feelings shapes who we are, how we act, and, ultimately, the kind of lives we lead. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Existentialist's Survival Guide\u003c\/em\u003e, Gordon Marino, director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College and boxing correspondent for \u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, recasts the practical takeaways existentialism offers for the twenty-first century. From negotiating angst, depression, despair, and death to practicing faith, morality, and love, Marino dispenses wisdom on how to face existence head-on while keeping our hearts intact, especially when the universe feels like it's working against us and nothing seems to matter. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat emerges are life-altering and, in some cases, lifesaving epiphanies--existential prescriptions for living with integrity, courage, and authenticity in an increasingly chaotic, uncertain, and inauthentic age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarino, Gordon:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eGordon Marino is a professor of philosophy and the director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eKierkegaard in the Present Age\u003c\/em\u003e, coeditor of \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eeditor of \u003cem\u003eBasic Writings of Existentialism, Ethics: The Essential Writings, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Quotable Kierkegaard.\u003c\/em\u003e A veteran boxing trainer, Marino is also an award-winning boxing writer for \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eand other outlets. \u003c\/em\u003eHis work has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times, The Atlantic, Newsweek\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e The\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eand \u003c\/em\u003emany other domestic and international publications. He lives in Northfield, Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperOne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50409529868562,"sku":"9780062436009","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_652d82ab-63c6-4f92-b04a-d9158551b599.jpg?v=1729289818","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-existentialists-survival-guide-how-to-live-authentically-in-an-inauthentic-age-9780062436009","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}