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The Seeker Of Meaning
Paperback
Publisher: Lookinglass
Published: Aug 12 2026
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
What does it mean to live with purpose when existence arrives without instructions?
The Seeker of Meaning is a work of literary philosophy that examines the human need to transform existence into significance. Moving through questions of free will, mortality, perception, identity, ambition, suffering, and self-transcendence, it asks whether meaning is something waiting to be discovered or something the individual is condemned to construct.
At the center of the book lies the idea that no experience reaches us untouched. Everything passes through a personal filter shaped by memory, trauma, desire, disappointment, hope, and the accumulated distortions of being alive. From this emerges our private mythology: the conviction that we occupy the central role in our own reality, that our struggles must lead somewhere, and that the effort invested in becoming ought somehow to justify our brief participation in existence.
Blending philosophical argument with metaphor, thought experiments, and increasingly intimate meditations, The Seeker of Meaning explores the unstable territory between the will to power and the will to meaning. It considers what remains of purpose when certainty disappears, what mortality does to ambition, how other people participate in the construction of our significance, and whether a life can possess meaning without ever receiving a final answer.
This is not a book of solutions. It is an inquiry into why we need them, how we manufacture them, and what survives when even our most carefully constructed answers begin to fracture.
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