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Author:

Dreyfus, Hubert L.

Title:

All things shining : reading the Western classics to find meaning in a secular age / Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly.

Edition:

1st Free Press hardcover ed.

Publisher:

Free Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xi, 254 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Religions.
Religion.
Meaning (Philosophy)

Other Authors:

Kelly, Sean (Sean D.)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

1416596151 (hc.)
9781416596158 (hc.)

LCCN:

2010021750

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

XCPB737 -- Lied Public Library-Essex (Essex)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)