Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations

Robert Nozick. Simon & Schuster, $15 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-671-72501-3

Everyday emotions and events including romance, sex, self-worth and creativity are not often the focus of formal philosophy, but are questioned and analyzed here by Harvard social thinker Nozick. PW found this ``an accessible, novel discourse.'' (Dec.)

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