All things shining : reading the Western classics to find meaning in a secular age
by
 
Dreyfus, Hubert L.

Title
All things shining : reading the Western classics to find meaning in a secular age

Author
Dreyfus, Hubert L.
 
Kelly, Sean (Sean D.)

ISBN
9781416596158

Personal Author
Dreyfus, Hubert L.

Edition
1st Free Press hardcover ed.

Publication Information
New York : Free Press, c2011.

Physical Description
xi, 254 p. ; 22 cm.

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.

Subject Term
Adult fiction, English

Added Author
Kelly, Sean (Sean D.)


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