ABSTRACT
How shall I live? As we saw at the beginning of this book: using these words to raise a question, I do not thereby succeed in raising the fundamental question. The question may be raised in the clichéd boredom of a rote introduction to philosophy. Or it may be made with the frenzied intensity of neurotic anxiety: How shall I live?!, How shall I live?! One can easily imagine a tragicomedy in which the ‘hero’ is so busy raising and re-raising ‘the fundamental question’ that he never succeeds in asking himself how he should live.1 It is precisely the ‘fundamental question’ which gets in the way of the fundamental question.
