Worldly wisdom
Subtitle: Great Books and the meanings of life
By: James Sloan Allen.
Publisher: Frederic C. Beil
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Savannah
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781929490356
Subjects: Best books; Literature -- History and criticism; Humanism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The tragic sense of life and the dawn of humanism; title: Control yourself; title: What do you know? How do you know it? Why should you care?; title: Living the good life; title: The moral landscape of Hell; title: Growing up naturally; title: Enough? Never!; title: From the maggot man to the superman; title: Condemned to be free; title: Find the right way, do the right thing; title: How to succeed in the business of life; title: So it seems; title: The price of mis-education; title: Democracy as a way of life; title: Through a class darkly; title: We shall overcome; title: The psychology of everyday life; title: It's party time : the ethics of civility; title: The morality and immorality of art; title: All stories are true; title: How beautiful, how sad; title: The uses of idealism; title: The gifts of imagination; title: Fantasies of seduction and the seductions of fantasy; title: Art for life's sake; title: Of love and marriage, passion and aging.