Description: Further DetailsTitle: All Things ShiningCondition: NewSubtitle: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular AgeISBN-10: 141659616XEAN: 9781416596165ISBN: 9781416596165Publisher: The Free PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/10/2011Description: 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 worldLanguage: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 214mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 252gAuthor: Sean Dorrance Kelly, Hubert DreyfusGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: All Things Shining
Title: All Things Shining
Subtitle: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
ISBN-10: 141659616X
EAN: 9781416596165
ISBN: 9781416596165
Release Date: 11/10/2011
Release Year: 2011
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: All Things Shining : Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Free Press
Publication Year: 2011
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: History & Surveys / General, Language, Movements / Existentialism, Comparative Religion, General, Movements / Humanism
Genre: Religion, Philosophy
Item Weight: 9.8 Oz
Author: Hubert Dreyfus, Sean Dorrance Kelly
Item Length: 8.4 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
