Reason for Being in the World: Table & Chapters

A table of contents page for Reason for Being in the World, with links to all chapters published so far.

An intellectual and spiritual accounting of identity

What first surrounded me in childhood — after myself, that is, in my self-comforting consciousness and my familiar body, and after my family — was my Americanness, which was so readily apparent because so enveloping: my Americanness within the ever expanding and enriching American culture of the 1950s and 60s boom, of which I was a baby born.

Only somewhat less pervasive – and even more notable for that reason – was that I was Jewish.

from Welträson, chapter 1 of Reason for Being in the World

I write and publish Reason for Being in the World even as I imagine it, then more fully conceive it from chapter to chapter, ruminating on the life of the world at a pivotal time, on my life at a turning point toward its own conclusion, and on the beliefs and experiences that shaped me, one human life among billions that have advanced through time and space on this one planet, briefly flashing in my evanescence like a neutrino detected.

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