Anatomy of Despair

Product Description Part autobiography, part analysis, part philosophy, part polemic, this little book explores the disquiet and despair that has coloured the author’s life from childhood, and through which the malignancy of the modern world is filtered. It continues the author’s journal entries begun in his previous book, Another Grief Observed, written in the months after the death of his wife in 2014. The exploration of despair is the exploration of the human condition and how self- conscious, sentient beings can face the inevitability of suffering. About the Author Keith Seddon was born in London in 1956. In the 1980s, at Hatfield Polytechnic and at University College London, he pursued his interests in the humanities and philosophy, acquiring his PhD, addressing the metaphysics of time, in 1986, after which he worked as an educator, tutor, and associate lecturer in a wide variety of contexts, at all levels of further and higher education. His wife of 37 years, Jocelyn Almond, for whom he had been her full-time carer, died in 2014. He lives in Hertfordshire, England, where he makes Anglo-Saxon lyres and composes music for the instrument. He is currently completing a translation of the Middle English Christian mystical writings of Julian of Norwich and recording notes on the philosophy of pessimism.