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Meaninglessness: The Solutions of Nietzsche, Freud, and Rorty(Religion, Politics, and Society in the New Millennium)

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What would the world be like if we no longer needed meaning? This work charts the collapse of the metaphysical world, and the inate human need for meaning. With the decline of Christianity and the demise of secular universalism in the west, the meaning and value of metaphysical culture has been replaced by an entirely new post-metaphysical world. In this book, Carey revisits the social theory of Nietzche, Freud and Rorty, in order to conceive how this post-metaphysical culture may take shape in the third millennium. This work should appeal to scholars and readers interested in sociology, post-modernism, cultural studies, political theory, and philosophy.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction: Culture and Meaning Chapter 2 Nietzsche: The Aesthetic Solution to Meaninglessness Chapter 3 Freud: The Therapeutic Solution to Meaninglessness Chapter 4 Rorty: The Post-metaphysical Solution to Meaninglessness Chapter 5 Conclusion: Culture and Life

About the Author :
Michael Casey is a sociologist on the staff of the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Australia, and Permanent Fellow in Sociology and Politics at the Australian campus of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family.

Review :
Dissecting the modern academic penchant for declaring our world inherently 'meaningless,' Michael Casey points the way toward a truer, nobler humanism. Michael Casey searchingly analyses the answers of influential enemies of transcedence. His masterful critique coolly exposes the dangers and horrors of "post-metaphysical" dystopias. He vindicates adherence to truth in the struggle for peace, humanity, and justice. This is a very important book, on a very important question. . . . The author has mastered his writers and a mass of accompanying material with enviable skill and lucidity and made an important and original contribution to metaphysical analysis and exposition. A profound examination of meaninglessness in human life—and above all, of the unhelpful attempts by modern thinkers such as Nietzche, Freud, and Rorty to devise a therapy that will protect us from it. Fascinating. . . . Casey's critique of Rorty is one of the most pungent and compelling I've run across. . . . It is also an enormous relief to find Freud discussed intelligently rather than reductively.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780739102572
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 168
  • Series Title: Religion, Politics, and Society in the New Millennium
  • Sub Title: The Solutions of Nietzsche, Freud, and Rorty
  • Width: 154 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0739102575
  • Publisher Date: 11 Dec 2001
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 467 gr


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