What Do We Mean When We Talk about Meaning? Cassedy Steven
A comprehensive journey through the history of meaning, from antiquity to modern day.The word meaning appears often in our daily lives: religious leaders holding out the promise of meaning for their…
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A comprehensive journey through the history of meaning, from antiquity to modern day.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