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All Things Shining

Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age

By: Hubert Dreyfus,Sean Dorrance Kelly

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All Things Shining

Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age

By: Hubert Dreyfus,Sean Dorrance Kelly

An inspirational book that is “a smart, sweeping run through the history of Western philosophy. Important for the way it illuminates life today and for the controversial advice it offers on how to live” (The New York Times). “What constitutes human excellence?” and “What is the best way to live a life?” These are questions that human beings have been asking since the beginning of time. In their critically acclaimed book, All Things Shining, Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly argue that our search for meaning was once fulfilled by our responsiveness to forces greater than ourselves, whether one God or many. These forces drew us in and imbued the ordinary moments of life with wonder and gratitude. Dreyfus and Kelly argue in this thought-provoking work that as we began to rely on the power of our own independent will we lost our skill for encountering the sacred. Through their original and transformative discussion of some of the greatest works of Western literature, from Homer’s Odyssey to Melville’s Moby Dick, Dreyfus and Kelly reveal how we have lost our passionate engagement with the things that gave our lives purpose, and show how, by reading our culture’s classics anew, we can once again be drawn into intense involvement with the wonder and beauty of the world. Well on its way to becoming a classic itself, this inspirational book will change the way we understand our culture, our history, our sacred practices, and ourselves.

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All Things Shining

Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age

By: Hubert Dreyfus,Sean Dorrance Kelly

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Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age

By: Hubert Dreyfus,Sean Dorrance Kelly

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The Relevance of Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Language and Mind

By: Sean D. Kelly

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The Relevance of Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Language and Mind

By: Sean D. Kelly

This work discusses philosophical problems of perceptual content, the content of deomonstrative thoughts, and the unity of proposition. By demonstrating a connection between phenomenology and analysis, Kelly suggests ways in which they can be fruitfully pursued.

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Routledge

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1135720096

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Nonlinear Temporality in Joyce and Walcott

History Repeating Itself with a Difference

By: Sean Seeger

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Nonlinear Temporality in Joyce and Walcott

History Repeating Itself with a Difference

By: Sean Seeger

Nonlinear Temporality in Joyce and Walcott is the first dedicated comparative study of James Joyce and Derek Walcott. The book examines the ways in which both Joyce’s fiction and Walcott’s poetry articulate a nonlinear conception of time with radical cultural and political implications. For Joyce and Walcott equally, the book argues, it is only by reconceiving time in this way that it becomes possible to envisage a means of escape from what Joyce calls “force, hatred, history” and what Walcott calls the “madness of history seen as sequential time”. A starting point for the comparisons drawn between Joyce and Walcott is their relationship to Homer. Joyce’s Ulysses is in one respect a rewriting of Homer’s Odyssey; Walcott’s Omeros stands in an analogous relationship to the Iliad. This book argues that these acts of rewriting, far from being instances of influence, intertexuality, or straightforward repetition, exemplify Joyce and Walcott’s complex stance, not just toward literary history, but toward the idea of history as such. The book goes on to demonstrate how an enhanced appreciation of the role of nonlinear temporality in Joyce and Walcott can help to illuminate numerous other aspects of their work.

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All Things Shining

All Things Shining

All Things Shining

All Things Shining

The Relevance of Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Language and Mind

The Relevance of Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Language and Mind

Nonlinear Temporality in Joyce and Walcott

Nonlinear Temporality in Joyce and Walcott

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