All Things Shining
All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by Sean Dorrance Kelly
English | 24 May 2011 | ISBN: 1416596151 | 261 Pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | 24 May 2011 | ISBN: 1416596151 | 261 Pages | EPUB | 3 MB
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.