Description
Transcendence for Beginners examines life writing and philosophy across certain European and Indian traditions, exploring questions of childhood and mortality, art and religion, beauty and loss. Informed by her experience as a biographer of Søren Kierkegaard and George Eliot as well as her own life, Clare Carlisle asks what one human existence can reveal, and how writing can transmit its truth. Intellectually stimulating and deeply moving, Transcendence for Beginners enacts a philosophy of the heart, told by a generous and compelling guide. This bold, enlivening work asserts Carlisle’s place as one of our most innovative thinkers.
• An examination of how our lives can illuminate the most complex philosophical and existential questions.
• An intellectually gratifying and moving work informed by certain European and Indian spiritual traditions.
• The latest work from the biographer of George Eliot and Søren Kierkegaard, winner of the 2024 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.