For many today, retirement and the leisure said to accompany it have become vestiges of a slower, long?lost time. In a world where the sense of identity is tied to work and careers, to stop working often is to become nobody.
In this "Last Works: Lessons in Leaving," Mark C. Taylor explores the final reflections of writers and thinkers from Kierkegaard to David Foster Wallace. How did they either face or avoid ending and leaving? What do their lessons in ending teach us about living in the time that remains for us?
Mark C. Taylor is professor of religion at Columbia University and a frequent contributor to the New York Times and NPR.
