Original Title: All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age 
Authors: Hubert Dreyfus & Sean Dorrance Kelly
Publisher: Simon & SchusterLanguage: English
Date of publication: 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4391-0170-4
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Synopsis
"What constitutes human excellence?" and "What is the best way to live a life?" These are questions that human beings have been asking sinee the beginning of time. In their critieally acclaimed book, All Rings 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 practicas, and ourselves. Offers a meditation on meaning of lifes, in a sharp engaging style.
About the AuthorsHubert Dreyfus (BA and PhD, Harvard) is considered a leading interpreter of the work of Michel Foucault, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and especially Martin Heidegger. From 1960 to 1968 he taught philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 1968 Professor Dreyfus has been teaching philosophy and literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is well known for his decades-long critique of artificial intelligence that culminated in his classic, What Computers Still Can?t Do, translated into twelve languages. The podcasts of his courses on philosophical issues in Western literature have drawn a worldwide audience. Dreyfus has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and has received research grants from both the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He holds a Doctorate Honoris Causa from Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and is a Fellow of the Am...

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