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
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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.
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