On Purpose - How We Create the Meaning of Life

Zusatztext The exercise of thinking about Tolstoy, the Limbaugh Dittoheads, and Oprah together is engaging of the imagination, but it is also analytically fruitful, as it invites intriguing comparative questions... Froese's book is a bold and engaging step in this direction, and, as such, it is also an invitation for more steps of its kind. Informationen zum Autor Paul Froese is Associate Professor of Sociology and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University. He is the co-author of America's Four Gods: What We Say about God--and What That Says about Us (OUP, 2010). Klappentext On Purpose is a sociological conversation about the meaning of life. Drawing on a huge national survey, Paul Froese examines what is important to Americans and why. Zusammenfassung On Purpose is a sociological conversation about the meaning of life. Drawing on a huge national survey, Paul Froese examines what is important to Americans and why. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue 1 Purpose 2 The Good Within 3 The Reality of Nihilism 4 Self-Enchantment 5 Truth and Consequences 6 About Time 7 Cross Purposes Epilogue

Product details

• Authors: Paul Froese, Froese Paul
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.01.2016
• EAN: 9780199948901
• ISBN: 978-0-19-994890-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 242 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Cultural Studies, RELIGION / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Religion & beliefs, Popular philosophy, Religion and beliefs, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy