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Sources of Significance - Worldly Rejuvenation and Neo-Stoic Heroism (Paperback, New)
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Sources of Significance - Worldly Rejuvenation and Neo-Stoic Heroism (Paperback, New)
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"Sources of Significance "confronts consumer capitalism and
religious fundamentalism as symptoms of death denial and
degenerated cultural heroisms. Advancing and synthesizing the ideas
of Ernest Becker, Kenneth Burke, Hans Jonas, Erving Goffman,
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, and Epictetus, this multidisciplinary
work offers a sustained response and corrective. It outlines
heroisms worth wanting and reveals the forms of gratitude, courage,
and purpose that emerge as people come to terms with the meaning of
mortality. Corey Anton opens a contemporary dialogue spanning
theism, atheism, agnosticism, and spiritualist humanism by
re-examining basic topics such as language, self-esteem, ambiguity,
guilt, ritual, sacrifice, and transcendence. Acknowledging the
growing need for theologies that are compatible with modern
science, Anton shows how today's consumerist lifestyles distort and
trivialize the need for self-worth, and he argues that each person
faces the genuinely heroic tasks of contributing to the world's
beauty, harmony, and resources; of forgiving the cosmos for
self-conscious finitude; and of gratefully accepting the ambiguity
of life's gifts.
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Imprint: |
Purdue University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2010 |
First published: |
September 2010 |
Authors: |
Corey Anton
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
186 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-55753-561-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Philosophy >
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Books >
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LSN: |
1-55753-561-2 |
Barcode: |
9781557535610 |
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