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Man Made God: The Meaning of Life Paperback - 2002

by Luc Ferry; David Pellauer (Translator)

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The church resists, and not without good motives.

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What happens when a conception of 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 of the divine and the divinization of the human. Ferry sees evidence for the first of these in the Catholic Church's attempts to counter the growing rejection of dogmatism and to translate the religious tradition into contemporary language. The second he traces to the birth of modern love and humanitarianism, both of which demand a concern for others and even self-sacrifice in defense of values that transcend life itself. Ferry concludes with a powerful statement in favor of what he calls "transcendental humanism"-a concept that for the first time in human history gives us access to a genuine spirituality rooted in human beings instead of the divine.

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  • Title Man Made God: The Meaning of Life
  • Author Luc Ferry; David Pellauer (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition Fi
  • Pages 172
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Date 2002-05-15
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780226244853 / 0226244857
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.56 x 0.59 in (21.59 x 14.12 x 1.50 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Life, Humanism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001053001
  • Dewey Decimal Code 128

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  • Choice, 02/01/2003, Page 995

About the author

Luc Ferry teaches at the Sorbonne and at the University of Caen in France. He is the author or coauthor of seven previous books published by the University of Chicago Press, including most recently The New Ecological Order.

David Pellauer is a professor of philosophy at DePaul Univesity.

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