All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age

Free Press. Edited by Sean Kelly (2011)
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Our contemporary 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" -- David Foster Wallace's nihilism -- Conclusion : lives worth living in a secular age.

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Hubert Dreyfus
Last affiliation: University of California, Berkeley

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