All things shining reading the Western classics to find meaning in a secular age
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New York :
Free Press,
c2011.
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| Edition: | 1st Free Press hardcover ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Our contemporary nihilism
- David Foster Wallace's 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"
- Conclusion : lives worth living in a secular age.
