All Things Shining

In this critically acclaimed book, Dreyfus and Kelly argue that our search for meaning was once fulfilled by our responsiveness to forces greater than ourselves, such as gods or a single God. They contend that as we began to rely on our own independent will, we lost our skill for encountering the sacred.

Through a discussion of Western literature from Homer's Odyssey to Melville's Moby Dick, the authors show how we can rediscover the sacred and intense involvement with the world's wonder and beauty by re-reading our cultural classics.