Story here (and a sample of her writing on the subject here). Another philosopher who received a similarly grim prognosis nearly twenty years ago, only to "beat the odds," is Julian Young (Auckland), whose book The Death of God and the Meaning of Life is both a very fine introduction to themes in post-Kantian German and French philosophy of the 19th- and 20th-centuries and a very personal engagement with its subject-matter.
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