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Josselson, Ruthellen, and Amia Lieblich. Making Meaning of Narratives. SAGE Publications, Inc., 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483348933.

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Ruthellen, Josselson, and Lieblich Amia 1939-, eds. Making meaning of narratives. Sage Publications, 1999.

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Reichardt, Peg. Conceptbuilding: Developing meaning through narratives and discussion. Thinking Publications, 1992.

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Els, Hermans-Jansen, ed. Self-narratives: The construction of meaning in psychotherapy. Guilford Press, 1995.

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O'Regan, Andrew. Imaging the voluntary actor: Interpreting narratives of intent and meaning. Nomos, 2009.

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Frankl, Viktor Emil. Man's Search for Meaning. 3rd ed. Beacon Press, 2007.

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Frankl, Viktor Emil. Man's Search for Meaning. Washington Square Press, 1985.

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Frankl, Viktor Emil. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

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Frankl, Viktor Emil. Man's Search for Meaning. Pocket Books, 1985.

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Hyden, Lars-Christer. Entangled Narratives. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199391578.001.0001.

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As more people live longer, the number of persons with the diagnosis of dementia will increase; many will live a long time in their homes, and spend time at a care unit only during the final stage of the disease. It is essential to know more about how persons with dementia adapt to and learn to live with the disease in their everyday life so that they can sustain both relations and identities. One of the most important everyday venues for sharing experiences and negotiating identity is storytelling. When one family member or spouse gradually loses the ability to tell stories and cherish their

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Landau, Iddo, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.001.0001.

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This volume presents thirty-two essays on a wide array of topics in modern philosophical meaning in life research. The essays are organized into six parts. Part I, Understanding Meaning in Life, focuses on various ways of conceptualizing meaning in life. Among other issues, it discusses whether meaning in life should be understood objectively or subjectively, the relation between importance and meaningfulness, and whether meaningful lives should be understood narratively. Part II, Meaning in Life, Science, and Metaphysics, presents opposing views on whether neuroscience sheds light on life’s m

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Landau, Iddo, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.001.0001.

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This volume presents thirty-two essays on a wide array of topics in modern philosophical meaning in life research. The essays are organized into six parts. Part I, Understanding Meaning in Life, focuses on various ways of conceptualizing meaning in life. Among other issues, it discusses whether meaning in life should be understood objectively or subjectively, the relation between importance and meaningfulness, and whether meaningful lives should be understood narratively. Part II, Meaning in Life, Science, and Metaphysics, presents opposing views on whether neuroscience sheds light on life’s m

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Longman III, Tremper. The Book of Ecclesiastes. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/bci-009t.

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Ecclesiastes is one of the most fascinating — and hauntingly familiar — books of the Old Testament. The sentiments of the main speaker of the book, a person given the name Qohelet, sound incredibly modern. Expressing the uncertainty and anxieties of our own age, he is driven by the question, "Where can we find meaning in the world?" But while Qohelet's question resonates with readers today, his answer is shocking. "Meaningless," says Qohelet, "everything is meaningless." How does this pessimistic perspective fit into the rest of biblical revelation? In this commentary Tremper Longman III addre

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Hondru, Joyce H. Ecclesiastes: Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Life. Elm Hill, 2018.

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Ecclesiastes: Finding Meaning When Life Feels Meaningless. Crossway, 2024.

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Hondru, Joyce H. Ecclesiastes: Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Life. Elm Hill, 2018.

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Hondru, Joyce H. Ecclesiastes: Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Life. Elm Hill, 2018.

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Ecclesiastes: Discovering Meaning in a Meaningless World. Kregel Publications, 2018.

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Altosaar, Ian. Meaning Book: How to Find Meaning in a Meaningless World? Independently Published, 2019.

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Holloway, Richard. Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe. Canongate Books, 2021.

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Holloway, Richard. Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe. Canongate Books, 2020.

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Holloway, Richard. Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe. Bolinda Audio, 2020.

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Everything Is Meaningless: Simple Steps to Find Purpose, Meaning & Happiness. Whealth Builders, 2006.

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Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe. Canongate Books, 2020.

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Benatar, David. Meaning. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190633813.003.0002.

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This chapter is the first of two chapters concerned with whether life is meaningless. Many people fear that it is. They fear that we are like Sisyphus, who was condemned to pointlessness. The basis for these fears is discussed. The chapter then clarifies the question “Does life have meaning?” It is noted that there are different perspectives from which one can ask whether a life is meaningful. It is then argued that life can have meaning from various terrestrial perspectives (that is, it can have a purpose or point from such perspectives). Thus, a total nihilism about meaning is not warranted.

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Sherrard, Michael. Why You Matter: How Your Quest for Meaning Is Meaningless Without God. Baker Books, 2021.

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Sherrard, Michael. Why You Matter: How Your Quest for Meaning Is Meaningless Without God. Baker Books, 2021.

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Why You Matter: How Your Quest for Meaning Is Meaningless Without God. Baker Books, 2021.

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Josselson, Ruthellen H., and Amia Lieblich. Making Meaning of Narratives. SAGE Publications, Incorporated, 1999.

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Making Meaning of Narratives. 1999.

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Josselson, Ruthellen H., and Amia Lieblich. Making Meaning of Narratives. SAGE Publications, Incorporated, 2012.

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Landau, Iddo. Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190657666.001.0001.

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After explaining what meaning in life is, the book moves to criticizing certain presuppositions about the meaning of life that unnecessarily lead many people to believe that their lives are meaningless. Among others, it criticizes perfectionism about meaning in life, namely, the assumption that meaningful lives must include some perfection or some rare and difficult achievements. It then responds to recurring arguments made by people who take their lives to be meaningless, such as the arguments claiming that life is meaningless because death eventually annihilates us and everything we do; what

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White, Mia. Meaning in the Meaningless: 100 Musings on the Power of the Present Moment. Independently Published, 2019.

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Norton, Jack. Meaning in the Meaningless, Volume 2: Musings on the Power of the Present Moment. Independently Published, 2019.

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Norton, Jack. Meaning in the Meaningless, Volume 3: Musings on the Power of the Present Moment. Independently Published, 2020.

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Norton, Jack. Meaning in the Meaningless, Volume 1: Musings on the Power of the Present Moment. Independently Published, 2019.

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Alvesson, Mats, Yiannis Gabriel, and Roland Paulsen. Researchers Making Sense of Meaningless Research. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198787099.003.0004.

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Academics use a variety of rationalizations to make sense of their work and to justify practices that they themselves recognize as having little value to the wider world. These can be ordered along two spectra: the instrumentalism-narcissism-spectrum, referring to whether individual researchers aim at satisfying the needs of their own egos or to meet some external criteria and requirements of their profession; and the religiosity-cynicism-spectrum, referring to whether researchers believe that they are contributing to science as a great and noble enterprise, or whether they dismiss such ambiti

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White, Mia. Meaning in the Meaningless, Volume 2: 100 Musings on the Power of the Present Moment. Independently Published, 2019.

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Nye, Catherine H. Psychoanalytic narratives: The formulation of meaning. 1989.

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Alvesson, Mats, Yiannis Gabriel, and Roland Paulsen. Institutions Encouraging Competition, Instrumentalism, and Meaningless Research. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198787099.003.0003.

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The rise of mass education has led to mass research—quantity dominates quality. A ruthless institutional competition for status, plus academics pushing to get published in the ‘right’, career-enhancing journals, has led to the fetishization of journal outputs even when they are of little meaning or value to society. This situation is now endemic within the system of academic research and publication, and is strongly driven and sustained by academics themselves, even when they are unwilling to admit it. Academics, both individually and collectively, exercise considerable control over the conten

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Alvesson, Mats, Yiannis Gabriel, and Roland Paulsen. Return to Meaning. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198787099.001.0001.

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This book argues that we are currently witnessing not merely a decline in the quality of social science research, but a proliferation of meaningless research of no value to society and modest value to its authors—apart from securing employment and promotion. The explosion of published outputs, at least in social science, creates a noisy, cluttered environment which makes meaningful research difficult, as different voices compete to capture the limelight even briefly. Older, but more impressive contributions are easily neglected as the premium is to write and publish, not read and learn. The re

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Meaning in action: Constructions, narratives, and representations. Springer, 2008.

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Meaning in Action: Constructions, Narratives, and Representations. Springer, 2010.

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Meaning in Action: Constructions, Narratives, and Representations. Springer, 2008.

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Hofmeyr, Amanda. No meaningless gesture: The measure and meaning of socio-economic rights in the New South African Constitution. 2000.

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White, Mia. Meaning in the Meaningless, Volume 3: 52 Weeks of Musings on the Power of the Present Moment. Independently Published, 2019.

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Reichardt, Peg. Concept Building: Developing Meaning Through Narratives and Discussion. Thinking Publications, 1992.

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Hermans, Hubert J. M., and Els Hermans-Jansen. Self-Narratives: The Construction of Meaning in Psychotherapy. The Guilford Press, 2001.

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Morewedge, Carey K., and Daniella M. Kupor. When the Absence of Reasoning Breeds Meaning. Edited by Kalina Christoff and Kieran C. R. Fox. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190464745.013.41.

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Intuitions, attitudes, images, mind-wandering, dreams, and religious messages are just a few of the many kinds of uncontrolled thoughts that intrude on consciousness spontaneously without a clear reason. Logic suggests that people might thus interpret spontaneous thoughts as meaningless and be uninfluenced by them. By contrast, our survey of this literature indicates that the lack of an obvious external source or motive leads people to attribute considerable meaning and importance to spontaneous thoughts. Spontaneous thoughts are perceived to provide meaningful insight into the self, others, a

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Alvesson, Mats, Yiannis Gabriel, and Roland Paulsen. Methodologies and Writings that Turn into Black Holes of Meaning. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198787099.003.0005.

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The training and socialization of social science researchers encourages a quest of tiny gaps in which to make contributions, membership of academic microtribes, a language full of jargon, and a near total indifference to the wider meaning or purpose of their work. Bad habits are reinforced by the review process which encourages further use of jargon, extensive digressions, esoteric arguments, the splitting of hairs, and a general indifference to social meaning and purpose. Almost any trivial or commonsensical observation can be blown up and made into something significant and impressive throug

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