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All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age

Autor Hubert Dreyfus, Sean Dorrance Kelly
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 noi 2011
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
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781416596165
ISBN-10: 141659616X
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 140 x 214 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Free Press
Colecția Free Press

Notă biografică

Hubert Dreyfus is a leading interpreter of existential philosophy.  He has taught at UC Berkeley for more than 40 years.

Sean Dorrance Kelly is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University.  He is also Co-Chair of Harvard’s interdisciplinary committee for the study of Mind, Brain, and Behavior. Before arriving at Harvard, Kelly taught at Stanford and Princeton, and he was a Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He is considered a leading interpreter of the French and German tradition in phenomenology, as well as a prominent philosopher of mind.  Kelly has published articles in numerous journals and anthologies and has received fellowships or awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEH, the NSF and the James S. McDonnell Foundation, among others.

Recenzii

“[A]n inspirational book but a highly intelligent and impassioned one.… compelling.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Offers a meditation on the meaning of life, in a sharp, engaging style …” New York Times Book Review

Descriere

A wide-ranging look at the loss of meaning in the West, and a gripping guide for how to retrieve it