All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
Dreyfus, Hubert
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DESCRIPTION : A sense of certainty and unhesitating confidence is rare in the contemporary world. An unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and if we are honest about it then most of us will admit that we waver in the face of them. Dreyfus and Kelly examine some of the greatest books in the Western Canon to explain that the burden of choice is essentially a modern problem to which there is an age old solution. Dreyfus and Kelly explain the huge jump from Homer's polytheistic world to the monotheistic one in which Dante wrote his Divine Comedy and Martin Luther wrote his ninety-five theses. They then take the reader forward to the rejection of this Christian ideal, to the Superman of Nietzsche and further onto the spiritual cornucopia of Herman Melville's Moby Dick.Arrivingat the ennui and emptiness that pervades our modern world in which the work of Elizabeth Gilbert and David Foster Wallace arose, Dreyfus and Kelly offer a new-and very old-way to embrace the world, a fresh way to live a meaningful life in a secular world
PRODUCT DETAILS :
ISBN : 9781416596165
BY (AUTHOR) Dreyfus, Hubert, BY (AUTHOR) Kelly, Sean Dorrance
PUBLISHER : Simon & Schuster
PUBLICATION DATE : November 10, 2011
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United States
IMPRINT : The Free Press
LANGUAGE : English
AGE : General
PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback
DIMENSION : 214 mm x 140 mm WEIGHT : 252 g PRODUCT SAFETY : EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning PRODUCT CATEGORY : Philosophy & Religion
All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
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A sense of certainty and unhesitating confidence is rare in the contemporary world. An unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and if we are honest about it then most of us will admit that we waver in the face of them.
Dreyfus and Kelly examine some of the greatest books in the Western Canon to explain that the burden of choice is essentially a modern problem to which there is an age old solution. Dreyfus and Kelly explain the huge jump from Homer's polytheistic world to the monotheistic one in which Dante wrote his Divine Comedy and Martin Luther wrote his ninety-five theses. They then take the reader forward to the rejection of this Christian ideal, to the Superman of Nietzsche and further onto the spiritual cornucopia of Herman Melville's Moby Dick.Arrivingat the ennui and emptiness that pervades our modern world in which the work of Elizabeth Gilbert and David Foster Wallace arose, Dreyfus and Kelly offer a new-and very old-way to embrace the world, a fresh way to live a meaningful life in a secular world
PRODUCT DETAILS :
DIMENSION : 214 mm x 140 mm
WEIGHT : 252 g
PRODUCT SAFETY : EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Philosophy & Religion
A sense of certainty and unhesitating confidence is rare in the contemporary world. An unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and if we are honest about it then most of us will admit that we waver in the face of them.
Dreyfus and Kelly examine some of the greatest books in the Western Canon to explain that the burden of choice is essentially a modern problem to which there is an age old solution. Dreyfus and Kelly explain the huge jump from Homer's polytheistic world to the monotheistic one in which Dante wrote his Divine Comedy and Martin Luther wrote his ninety-five theses. They then take the reader forward to the rejection of this Christian ideal, to the Superman of Nietzsche and further onto the spiritual cornucopia of Herman Melville's Moby Dick.Arrivingat the ennui and emptiness that pervades our modern world in which the work of Elizabeth Gilbert and David Foster Wallace arose, Dreyfus and Kelly offer a new-and very old-way to embrace the world, a fresh way to live a meaningful life in a secular world
PRODUCT DETAILS :
| ISBN : 9781416596165 | |
| BY (AUTHOR) Dreyfus, Hubert, BY (AUTHOR) Kelly, Sean Dorrance | |
| PUBLISHER : Simon & Schuster | PUBLICATION DATE : November 10, 2011 |
| COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United States | IMPRINT : The Free Press |
| LANGUAGE : English | AGE : General |
| PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback | |
WEIGHT : 252 g
PRODUCT SAFETY : EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Philosophy & Religion