What Do We Mean When We Talk about Meaning? Steven Cassedy

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190936908
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190936907
• Author(s): Steven Cassedy

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.

Table contents:

1. The Ancient World Got Along Without It Until the Rise of Christianity
2. Christianity, Scripture, and “Reading” the World, from Augustine to Bishop Berkeley
3. Idealism and Romanticism: From the Language of Nature to the Meaning of Life (or the World)
4. Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson Bring the “Mystery of Existence” and the “Sense of Life” to the English-Speaking World
5. Two Russian Titans Weigh In
6. Paul Tillich: Bridge to the Twentieth Century and the “Age of Anxiety”
7. Meaning in the Age of Anxiety and Well Beyond
8. Meaning Goes Clinical, Therapeutic, and Popular
9. Meaning Bridges the Secular and the Sacred
Conclusion: The Marvel of Meaning
Notes
Index

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