All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age Hardcover - 2011
by Hubert Dreyfus,Sean Dorrance Kelly
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- Title All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
- Author Hubert Dreyfus,Sean Dorrance Kelly
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st ptg
- Condition Used Good
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Free Press, Riverside, NJ, U.S.A.
- Date January 2011
- Bookseller's Inventory # 226381
- ISBN 9781416596158 / 1416596151
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.6 x 5.89 x 1.05 in (21.84 x 14.96 x 2.67 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Religion, Religions
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010021750
- Dewey Decimal Code 200
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Summary
Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly illuminate some of the greatest works of the West to reveal how we have lost our passionate engagement with and responsiveness to the world. Their journey takes us from the wonder and openness of Homers polytheism to the monotheism of Dante; from the autonomy of Kant to the multiple worlds of Melville; and, finally, to the spiritual difficulties evoked by modern authors such as David Foster Wallace and Elizabeth Gilbert.
Dreyfus, a philosopher at the University of California, Berkeley, for forty years, is an original thinker who finds in the classic texts of our culture a new relevance for peoples everyday lives. His lively, thought-provoking lectures have earned him a podcast audience that often reaches the iTunesU Top 40. Kelly, chair of the philosophy department at Harvard University, is an eloquent new voice whose sensitivity to the sadness of the cultureand to what remains of the wonder and gratitude that could chase it awaycaptures a generation adrift.
Re-envisioning modern spiritual life through their examination of literature, philosophy, and religious testimony, Dreyfus and Kelly unearth ancient sources of meaning, and teach us how to rediscover the sacred, shining things that surround us every day. This book will change the way we understand our culture, our history, our sacred practices, and ourselves. It offers a newand very oldway to celebrate and be grateful for our existence in the modern world.
