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Education’s End : Why Our Colleges And Universities Have Given Up On The Meaning Of Life

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The Meaning Of Life

  • The Meaning Of Life

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    Terry Eagleton

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    Book, Oxford University Press, 2007

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    The phrase “the meaning of life” for many seems a quaint notion fit for satirical mauling by Monty Python or Douglas Adams. On the other hand, Eagleton notes, many educated people believe that life is an evolutionary accident that has no intrinsic meaning. “If you were to ask what provides some meaning in life nowadays for a great many people, especially men, you could do worse than reply ‘football.’ Not many of them perhaps would be willing to admit as much; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BD431 .E14 2007  AVAILABLE

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Living A Life That Matters

  • Living A Life That Matters

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    Harold S. Kushner

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    Book, 1st Anchor Books ed, Anchor Books, 2002

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    Drawing on the stories of his own congregants, on literature, current events and, above all, on the Biblical story of Jacob, the worldly trickster who evolves into a man of God –Kushner addresses some of the most persistent dilemmas of the human condition: Why do decent people so often violate their moral standards? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BL629.5.S44 K87 2002  AVAILABLE

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Soul Mountain

  • Soul Mountain

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    Gao Xingjian ; translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee

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    Book, 1st Perennial ed, Perennial, 2001

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    In 1983, Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death.But six weeks later, a second examination revealed there was no cancer?he had won “a second reprieve from death.” (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PL2869.O128 L5613 2001  AVAILABLE

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The Seekers : The Story Of Man’s Continuing Quest To Understand His World

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The Politics Of Meaning : Restoring Hope And Possibility In An Age Of Cynicism

  • The Politics Of Meaning : Restoring Hope And Possibility In An Age Of Cynicism

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    Michael Lerner

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    Book, Addison-Wesley, 1996

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    Still, Lerner argues that even President Clinton and the Democrats have lost the nerve to pursue a true politics-of-meaning program.The author contends that we and our politician can no longer separate healing of the soul from healing of our political and social world. At a moment in American history when public life feels increasingly debased and irrelevant, Lerner?s vision of a society based on caring for our soul and recognizing each other as infinitely precious offers a way of doing politics that no longer forces people to choose between their deepest spiritual longings and their desire to have impact on the world. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BD431 .L384 1996  AVAILABLE

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Intuition And Reflection In Self-consciousness

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Hermeneutics And Human Finitude : Toward A Theory Of Ethical Understanding

  • Hermeneutics And Human Finitude : Toward A Theory Of Ethical Understanding

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    by P. Christopher Smith

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    Book, Fordham University Press, 1991

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    In further elaborating Hans-Georg Gadamer?s hermeneutical reception of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, and Hegel, and in referring simultaneously to Edmund Burke?s parallel political rhetoric, among other tradition-oriented arguments in the English language, this book seeks a recollection of shared ethical principles, a recollection which alone, it is argued, might prevent the devolution of discussion into war with words and make possible some measure of consensus, however provisional and shadowed by dissent it will be. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BD241 .S64 1991  AVAILABLE

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The Meaning Of Literature

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Richards On Rhetoric : I.A. Richards, Selected Essays, 1929- 1974

  • Richards On Rhetoric : I.A. Richards, Selected Essays, 1929- 1974

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    edited by Ann E. Berthoff

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    Book, Oxford University Press, 1991

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    Organized in four parts–Practical Criticism, The Philosophy of Rhetoric, The Meaning of Meaning, and Design for Escape–the book offers a lucid introduction to Richards’s writings, with valuable headnotes to each section and a unique index of “speculative instruments” that examines the principal ideas Richards thought with. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  P301 .R49 1991  AVAILABLE

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Meaning And Truth : Essential Readings In Modern Semantics

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Pursuit Of Truth

  • Pursuit Of Truth

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    W.V. Quine

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    Book, Harvard University Press, 1990

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    Quine’s efforts to get beyond the confusion begin by rejecting the very idea of binding together word and thing, rejecting the focus on the isolated word. Starting thus with sentences, Quine sketches an epistemological setting for the pursuit of truth. He proceeds to show how reification and reference contribute to the elaborate structure that can indeed relate science to its sensory evidence.In this book Quine both summarizes and moves ahead. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  B945.Q53 P87 1990  AVAILABLE

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Studies In The Way Of Words

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Realism, Meaning, And Truth

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The Body In The Mind : The Bodily Basis Of Meaning, Imagination, And Reason

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