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Joyce Avrech Berkman - Edith Stein's Life in a Jewish Family, 1891-1916

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Edith Stein's Life in a Jewish Family, 1891-1916

2023

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Grasping the Meaning of Life‌‌‌‌‌‌‌ S. 73-130

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Darl Larsen - A Book about the Film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

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A Book about the Film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

2020

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Preface S. i-xxiv

„… 20_0063-Larsen.indb 2 5/8/20 7:36 AMA Book about the Film Monty Python’s The Meaning of LifeAll the …” „… about Meaning of Life?This is a tough film to pigeonhole, even as a Monty Python film. Meaning of Life …” „… periods of enjoyable window dressing.9 The sketches in Meaning of Life—it is an assemblage of originally …”

SCENE TWENTY-EIGHT. END CREDITS S. 373-380

„… , among many others.Music and Songs—“The Meaning of Life”—Lyrics Eric Idle, music Idle and John Du Prez …” „… and Doctor Who, then A Fish Called Wanda.Angela Mann—The Meaning of Life is Angela’s only screen …” „… Roger Pratt—Hannan shot the Meaning of Life bits, while Pratt photographed The Crimson Permanent …”

SCENE TWENTY. ATTACK OF THE SUPPORTING FEATURE S. 312-322

„… Grail, but which applies directly to the darker world of Meaning of Life:The late 1950s and then 1960s …” „… scenes from the albums, Flying Circus, and Life of Brian.12CHAIRMAN: “Item 6 on the Agenda, the Meaning …” „… prayer that one day each financier shall find some meaning in his life outside this round of eternal …”

SCENE TWO. FISH TANK S. 80-82

„… 80FADE UP on a pleasant aquarium—As Meaning of Life was first being written, and even be-fore it …” „… particularly.3 Before this, fish and the meaning of life weren’t totally disassociated, since Alan Bennett’s …” „… the results of all three wars “predictably disastrous” for Britain.7 As Meaning of Life was being …”

SCENE TWENTY-FIVE. PART VII: DEATH: Mr. Death Comes to Dinner S. 348-359

„… Lange, also designed the production for Meaning of Life.Coincidentally, while in Glasgow to shoot the …” „… .. . . re-invokes one of his greatest triumphs on a low budget—Speaking of budgets, the Meaning of Life was easily …” „… and not the BBC.) Their next film after Life of Brian was a very Hollywood film, Meaning of Life. Just …”

SCENE SIX. PART I: THE MIRACLE OF BIRTH, PART 2: The Third World—Protestantism S. 176-196

„… the core of the new class of owner-occupiers . . . the life-style of lower middle-class people was …” „… 7:36 AMPART I: THE MIRACLE OF BIRTH, PART 2179never having “been one of them,” meaning a non-Catholic …” „… evident.The close proximity of these homes and the insularity of these communities fostered a gossip-rich life …”

SCENE EIGHT. PART II: GROWTH AND LEARNING: School Chapel S. 199-214

„… , and they both look and feel like the genres they’re inhabiting and sending up. Meaning of Life is more …” „… 1982, as the Pythons were preparing Meaning of Life for distribution. In June 1982, for example …” „… Chapel was the centre of my life—The only place where I could be alone.12Barnett’s “honour” and “sin …”

SCENE TWENTY-SIX. PART VII: DEATH: “It’s Christmas in Heaven” S. 360-364

„… Britain as the Pythons wrote Meaning of Life.“‘Jaws’ I, II and III”—The Universal-produced Jaws was a …” „… after Meaning of Life premiered.18 All the Jaws films and Meaning of Life were distributed by Universal …” „… life. The fact that our presenter ends with two commandments—Take care of SCENE TWENTY-SIXPART VII …”

SCENE NINETEEN. PART V: LIVE ORGAN TRANSPLANTS: “Universe Song” S. 308-311

„… ten feature films after his work on Meaning of Life.MAN IN PINK: “The Universe itself keeps on …” „… , to people who could do it properly.4 By the time he was working on his portions of Meaning of Life …” „… Einstein-like character12 wrestles with Relativity, “the Bomb,” and perhaps even the meaning of life, as well as …”

SCENE FIVE. PART I: THE MIRACLE OF BIRTH, PART 2: The Third World—“Every Sperm Is Sacred” S. 117-175

„… Orwell will also read familiar. The crew for Meaning of Life went well beyond the size of the typical …” „… well underway by the time Meaning of Life was being written. Consider just 1980: Brit-ish Steel …” „… distance. The Pythons had done two similar shots in Life of Brian—one to create the illusion of a complete …”

SCENE ONE. THE CRIMSON PERMANENT ASSURANCE S. 1-79

„… creator Terry Gilliam. Hollywood distributor Universal had bankrolled Meaning of Life and provided a chunk …” „… lamentations were understandable—by mid-1982, when Meaning of Life was being completed, unemployment in Britain …” „… pounds of bailout money.75 By April 1983, just when Meaning of Life was hitting cinemas, the British …”

SCENE FOURTEEN. PART III: FIGHTING EACH OTHER: First Zulu War 1879 S. 262-279

„… to great comedic effect. It was recognizable and generically faithful (to a point). Life of Brian was …” „… Life of Brian, needing a Holy Land “look,” they had offers to shoot in Israel and even Jerusalem but …” „… chose Tunisia, where much of Zeffirelli’s Jesus of Nazareth had been filmed.27 By the time of Meaning of …”

SCENE THREE. ANIMATED OPENING TITLES S. 83-104

„… Meaning of Life”—In the 1959 film North West Frontier, a young Indian prince is being escorted to safety …” „… the singer here, as he reminds all of their place, of the mean-ing of life: “Excellent! Excellent …” „… , the “meaning of life” is discussed several times in North West Frontier—in relation to the empire, to …”

SCENE NINE. PART II: GROWTH AND LEARNING: Sex Education Class S. 215-224

„… , puritanical society . . . [and] school life set the tone.”6 There were rules everywhere, and ways of doing …” „… could be found in everyday life, as well, and which Gilliam brought into the center of his dystopian …” „… cruelty of life in the unreformed public school,” Hughes striving to “counteract the neo-Regency …”

SCENE ELEVEN. PART III: FIGHTING EACH OTHER: World War I S. 229-243

„… might be playing the game of life here with . . . rifles and bayonets for weapons, and freedom for the …” „… trenches.”23 By the 1930s the uncertainty of overmanning and life on the dole confronted Harry, instead …” „… stuff of everyday life was still available, and that business could carry on even as government …”

SCENE FOUR. PART I: THE MIRACLE OF BIRTH: Labor and Delivery S. 105-116

„… issuance of a Social Security number that stays with the individual for life.“Measure it, blood type it …” „… boards—there were district and regional levels of administration—meaning a doctor answering to a committee to …” „… , meaning this is an ideal Tory example of a functioning hospital.ADMINISTRATOR: “. . . we lease this back …”

SCENE EIGHTEEN. PART V: LIVE ORGAN TRANSPLANTS S. 294-307

„… of cold research volunteers across Britain.44 And just as the Pythons were writing Meaning of Life …” „… terrific subtitle for Meaning of Life.20_0063-Larsen.indb 301 5/8/20 7:36 AMSCENE EIGHTEEN302SON: “Mum …” „… as-yet-untitled Meaning of Life film (Palin, Halfway to Hollywood, 108–9).23. “Multi-Organ Donor Cards Announced …”

INDEX S. 391-418

„… , 293n30Monty Python’s Spamalot, 320n12, 325Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (script/book), xviii, 60n …” „… 391INDEXA. Maze and Lee Huge. See VBC of AAbbey Life Assurance. See assurance/insurance companies …” „… Bright Side of Life. See Idle, EricAmerica/Americans, xiii, xv–xvii, xixn4, 1–8, 11, 13–19, 21–22, 25 …”

SCENE TWENTY-SEVEN. THE END OF THE FILM S. 365-372

„… ad-libbed “a very short and dismissive lady” who somehow had the meaning of life in an envelope. The joke …” „… An-geles audience about the coming British invasion.4 Palin mentions that the meaning of life (as revealed …” „… kind of surprise ending here, meaning an actual answer to “What is the meaning of life?” The Pythons …”

SCENE TWENTY-THREE. PART VII: DEATH: The Death of Arthur Jarrett S. 340-345

„… “Philosopher’s Drinking Song”—might not have included death in his own version of the “Meaning of Life.” In …” „… the entire time the Pythons were writing and shooting Meaning of Life. Much of this protest was …” „… 1980–1989).37. As the Pythons were in the early stages of the Meaning of Life concept struggle, Auberon Waugh …”

BIBLIOGRAPHY S. 381-390

„… : Methuen, 1989.———. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. London: Methuen, 1983.——— (with Bob McCabe). The …” „… . 1969–1974.Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Dir. Terry Jones. 1979.Monty Python’s the Meaning of Life. Dir …” „… 381BIBLIOGRAPHYAdams, Douglas. The Meaning of Liff. New York: Harmony Books, 1984.Aitken, Jonathan …”

SCENE TWELVE. PART III: FIGHTING EACH OTHER: Military Lecture S. 244-251

„… different in Meaning of Life. In order there are episodes or threats of:• pirate violence and death• a meat …” „… long before Meaning of Life was in production, PM Callaghan had called the beginnings of real …” „… : “. . . a struggle between alternative viewpoints of life itself”—Major Eric Wood was an American serving in …”

SCENE SEVENTEEN. PART IV: MIDDLE AGE: Conversation Restaurant S. 288-293

„… life, or its possible meanings. That conversation just won’t be “very good.” Ep. 44 of Flying Circus …” „… , clapping along to the “Knights of the Round Table” song, and in Life of Brian, Ben hangs from the wrists in …” „… can be heard, likely a nod to the proliferation across the 1950s and beyond of yet another disliked …”

SCENE TWENTY-ONE. PART VI: THE AUTUMN YEARS: Mr. Creosote S. 323-337

„… -Larsen.indb 324 5/8/20 7:37 AMPART VI: THE AUTUMN YEARS325tried to write Meaning of Life in …” „… 323The Autumn Years—A phrase heard often, but in relation to the cycles of life it can be …” „… Harrison actually produced (and made possible, and appeared in) the controversial Life of Brian.21NOT NOËL …”

SCENE THIRTEEN. PART III: FIGHTING EACH OTHER: Marching Up and Down the Square S. 252-261

„… Meaning of Life. A reinvigorated, perhaps even mandate-wielding Thatcher administration was on the horizon …” „… thought of army life before they were out of their teens.”1 Idle remembers being part of the Combined …” „… Training Corps was tincturing the image of military service for people like Claud Cockburn: “By compulsory …”

SCENE FIFTEEN. PART III: FIGHTING EACH OTHER: Tiger Skin S. 280-284

„… . The Pythons had finished Life of Brian at Shep-perton, as well. 4. Larsen, MPFC: UC, 2.40–49. 5. This …” „… is the kind of blooper seen in countless of the better (meaning more entertaining) Hong Kong martial …” „… 280The search party for Perkins’s leg is passing through thick jungle—Part of the inspiration for …”

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Steven A. Benko - Better Living Through TV

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Better Living Through TV

2022

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Morality versus Mortality: The Meaning of (After)Life in The Good Place S. 201-226

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Michael L. Wehmeyer, Dana S. Dunn - The Positive Psychology of Personal Factors

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The Positive Psychology of Personal Factors

2022

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Chapter 10: The Experience of Meaning in Life in the Context of Pain-Related Disability S. 171-192

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Chiara Pasqualin, Anne Kirstine Rönhede, Sihan Wu, Franziska Neufeld - Leben in lebendigen Fragen

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Chiara Pasqualin (ed.), Anne Kirstine Rönhede (ed.), Sihan Wu (ed.), Franziska Neufeld (ed.)

Leben in lebendigen Fragen

2021

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Danka Radjenović Wittgensteins Bemerkungen über das Problem des Lebens im Kontext gegenwärtiger Diskussionen S. 349-366

„… .39 Thompson, »Wittgenstein, Tolstoy and the Meaning of Life«.renden Ratlosigkeit in der Mitte seines …” „… werden im zweiten Teil auf die gegenwärtigenDiskussionen über den Sinn des Lebens (meaning of life …” „… Ethics (1929/30) he maintains that the task of ethicsis to inquire into the meaning of life. The first …”

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