THOUGHTS ON DEATH AND LIFE by William Ernest Hocking - 1937

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. A Good copy (1937 owner's name) in maroon cloth lettered in gold. Tanning to the endpapers. Brief pencil underlining and marginalia. A sound reading copy of the 1937 first edition. No dust jacket. (Not ex-library.)

New York and London: Harper and Brothers Publishers. Library special collection stamp inside front cover, endpapers browned, spine sunned, bottom corners bumped, front hinge cracked. Internally clean. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1937.

Yale University Press, 1937. Hardcover, no dust jacket. First edition. Good. Foxing, slightly rubbed cover.

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible Very Good/No Jacket. 1st Edition Stated (Harper & Brothers - 1937) Ex-library with usual marks. No marks noted in text. Binding is sound. No dust jacket. . . . . . . . . . The Ingersoll lecture on the immortality of man, Harvard university, April 21, 1936 / Meanings of death, and the Hiram W. Thomas lecture, University of Chicago May 14, 1936, Meaning of life. . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: * PART I: Meaning of Death: * Prologue -- 1.) Incredulity toward death -- 2.) Positive meanings of death -- 3.) Logical preliminaries -- 3.1.) Unnecessary impediment -- 3.2.) The mind and its body -- 4.) A dilemma of world structure -- 5.) The principle of duality -- 5.1.) The self and the subconscious -- 5.2.) Traits of the two selves -- 6.) Further meaning of death -- 7.) What ought to be Epilogue ------- * PART II: Interlude: A Symposium on The Meaning of Life: 1.) The worth of mere being alive -- 2.)… Read More