Superficial & Sublime?

FROM : THE NEW YORK REVIEW
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All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
by Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly
Free Press, 254 pp., $26.00

Hamburger Kunsthalle/Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz/Art Resource

Helen of Troy; painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1863

This book, which was featured on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, comes recommended by some famous Big Thinkers. It is written by well-regarded professors (one of them the chairman of the Harvard philosophy department). This made me rub my eyes with astonishment as I read the book itself, so inept and shallow is it. The authors set about to solve the problems of a modern secular culture.

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