Sources of Significance Worldly Rejuvenation and Neo-Stoic Heroism

Name: Sources of Significance Worldly Rejuvenation and Neo-Stoic Heroism
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ISBN: 9781557535610

ISBN-10: 1557535612

ISBN-13: 9781557535610

Edition: 2010

Authors: Corey Anton

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Sources of Significance confronts consumer capitalism and religious fundamentalism as symptoms of death denial and degenerated cultural heroisms. Advancing and synthesizing the ideas of Ernest Becker, Kenneth Burke, Hans Jonas, Erving Goffman, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, and Epictetus, this multidisciplinary work offers a sustained response and corrective. It outlines heroisms worth wanting and reveals the forms of gratitude, courage, and purpose that emerge as people come to terms with the meaning of mortality. Corey Anton opens a contemporary dialogue spanning theism, atheism, agnosticism, and spiritualist humanism by reexamining basic topics such as language, self-esteem, ambiguity, guilt,…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Publication date: 9/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 186
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Logos, Natural Guilt, and the Human Condition



From Self-Esteem to the Modern Causa Sui Project



Logos as the Ambiguity of Merger and Division



The Cosmological Ground of Logos



Reckoning with Natural Guilt



Ritual Elements of Face-to-Face Encounters



Bartering as Ritual of Transcendence



Stoic Virtues as Heroic Ritual Practices


Epilogue: On Comic Correctives


Works Cited


Index