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What Do We Mean When We Talk about Meaning?

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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.5 x 2.2 cm

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For anyone seeking deeper understanding of life's meaning

Uncovers complexities of the word "meaning" today

You will gain clarity on life's purpose and value

This insightful book explores the rich history of the concept of "meaning" from ancient times to today.

__A comprehensive journey through the history of "meaning," from antiquity to modern day.__The word meaning appears often in our daily lives: religious leaders holding out the promise of meaning for their followers, self-help manuals seeking to demonstrate the power of meaning to enrich our lives, and most frequently people questioning the meaning of life. The word carries a multitude of connotations, from "purpose" to "value" and "essence" to "mysterious truth", but this diversity of understanding is rarely explored. In What Do We Mean When We Talk About Meaning?, Steven Cassedy tells the story of how a word that began by denoting "signifying" and "intending" came to acquire such a broad array of sub-definitions. The book begins with the early Christian thinkers who believed meaning could be "read" from the world as if it were holy scripture, then moves into the philosophers who adapted this notion and eventually the Romantic-era Germans that coined "the meaning of life," a phrase that later traveled to Great Britain, the United States, and Russia. The book also extends into the twentieth century, when "meaning" acquired its greatest power in the realms of religion, psychotherapy, and self-help, all of which helped it to accumulate the fluidity and ambiguity it still displays today.
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  • Title

    What Do We Mean When We Talk about Meaning?

  • Author

    Steven Cassedy (distinguished Professor Of Literature Emeritus, Distinguished Professor Of Literature Emeritus, University Of California, San Diego)

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    March 2022

  • Weight

    454g

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.5 x 2.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780190936907

  • ISBN-10

    0190936908

  • Eden Code

    5613748