Claude Evans

Before the Beginning, During the Middle, After the End

Philosophy

“How does my life (or the world, or a work of art) begin? How does my life (my world, the world) end? What is the significance of what happens in between, of the way pleasure and pain form the parameters of a life well lived? Lucian Krukowski's meditations on these themes are a journey through speculative cosmology, aesthetics, and the art of living. These lyrical, personal, and analytically rigorous investigations of the ways in which human life is suspended, not between being (God, eternity) and nothingness, but between nonbeing and nonbeing, are a worthy addition to the tradition of such thinkers as Kierkegaard, Walker Percy, and Albert Camus.”