Dreyfus, Hubert L.

All things shining reading the Western classics to find meaning in a secular age / Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly. - 1st Free Press hardcover ed. - New York Free Press 2011. - xi, 254 p. 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-243) and index.

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.

9781416596158 (alk. paper) 1416596151 (alk. paper)

2010021750


Religions.
Religion.
Meaning (Philosophy)

BL80.3 / D778 2011

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