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All things shining : reading the Western classics to find meaning in a secular age / Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dreyfus, Hubert L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religions.
- Religion.
- Meaning (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- xi, 254 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Free Press hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Free Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Our contemporary nihilism
- David Foster Wallace's nihilism
- Homer's polytheism
- From Aeschylus to Augustine : monotheism on the rise
- From Dante to Kant : the attractions and dangers of autonomy
- Fanaticism, polytheism, and Melville's "evil art"
- Conclusion : lives worth living in a secular age.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-243) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781416596158
- 1416596151
- OCLC:
- 464593183
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