Man Made God: The Meaning of Life

by Luc Ferry

Book Overview

What happens when the meaning of life based on a divine revelation no longer makes sense? Does the quest for transcendence end in the pursuit of material success and self-absorption?

Luc Ferry argues that modernity and the emergence of secular humanism in Europe since the eighteenth century have not killed the search for meaning and the sacred, or even the idea of God, but rather have transformed both through a dual process: the humanization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226244857
• ISBN13: 9780226244853
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"