All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular age [Audiobook] download free by Sean Dorrance Kelly
- Listen audiobook: All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular age
- Author: Sean Dorrance Kelly
- Release date: 2014/12/8
- Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781416596165
- Rating: 8.26 of 10
- Votes: 793
- Review by: Tomas Williford
- Review rating: 9.32 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/8
- Duration: 3H18M25S in 256 kbps (54.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-21
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, WAV, MP3, FLAC, Shorten, MPEG4 (compression RAR, ZIP, TAR.BZ2, LZMA, RPM)
- Total pages original book: 272
- Includes a PDF summary of 29 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 21M25S (5.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A sense of certainty and unhesitating confidence is rare in the contemporary world. An unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and if we are honest about it then most of us will admit that we waver in the face of them. Dreyfus and Kelly examine some of the greatest books in the Western Canon to explain that the burden of choice is essentially a modern problem to which there is an age old solution. Dreyfus and Kelly explain the huge jump from Homer's polytheistic world to the monotheistic one in which Dante wrote his Divine Comedy and Martin Luther wrote his ninety-five theses. They then take the reader forward to the rejection of this Christian ideal, to the Superman of Nietzsche and further onto the spiritual cornucopia of Herman Melville's Moby Dick.Arrivingat the ennui and emptiness that pervades our modern world in which the work of Elizabeth Gilbert and David Foster Wallace arose, Dreyfus and Kelly offer a new-and very old-way to embrace the world, a fresh way to live a meaningful life in a secular world
- Other categories, genre or collection: History Of Western Philosophy, Literary Studies: General, Philosophy Of Religion, History Of Religion, Religious Books, Philosophy
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 16.97 USD
- Dimensions: 140x214x18mm
- Weight: 249g
- Printed by: The Free Press
- Published in: New York, United States
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