What is the relation between meaning and the feeling of being alive?

In this short philosophical work, Emanuel B. David explores the reciprocity between meaning and vitality in lived experience. We do not merely persist biologically. We inhabit a world in which things matter, call, wound, console, obligate, and awaken. Yet a person may continue to exist while feeling inwardly deadened, just as a single encounter with meaning can make life vivid again.

Written as a concise companion to Meaning as the Mark of Mind, this book may also be read independently. It will appeal to readers interested in existential philosophy, phenomenology, meaning, consciousness, the good life, and the question of what makes human life feel truly alive.