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What Do We Mean When We Talk about Meaning?

[Hardback]

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

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      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

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      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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      • 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

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      • Author/Creator: Steven Cassedy (distinguished Professor Of Literature Emeritus, Distinguished Professor Of Literature Emeritus, University Of California, San Diego)

      • ISBN: 9780190936907

      • Publisher: Oxford University Press

      • Release Date: March 2022

      • Weight: 454g

      • Dimensions: 15.6 x 23.5 x 2.2 cm

      • Eden Code: 5613748

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