What Do We Mean When We Talk about Meaning?

ISBN-13: 9780190936907 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 224 str.

Steven Cassedy

Recenzje

How did the words 'meaning' and 'life' become connected? Steven Cassedy's remarkable intellectual history provides the first comprehensive answer, by tracing the connection from the ancient world, to German Romanticism, to the Catholic Church's adoption of the language of 'meaning' in the 1960s. It's quite a story, very irreverently told, and once you know it you might not want a meaningful life anymore.

O autorze

Steven Cassedy is the author of six previous books, including To the Other Shore: The Russian Jewish Intellectuals Who Came to America (Princeton, 1997), Dostoevsky's Religion (Stanford, 2005), and Connected: How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (Stanford, 2014), which won a gold medal in US history at the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY). He retired as a Distinguished Professor of Literature and Associate Dean of the Graduate Division at the University of California, San Diego, in 2018 and now lives with his wife Patrice, a playwright, in Riverdale, Bronx.