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A New York Times bestseller in which philosophers Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly argue that the modern, secular world has lost its skill for encountering the sacred — the moments when things shine with meaning. Reading Homer, Dante, Melville, and others, they trace how earlier cultures found significance in the world rather than manufacturing it from within the isolated self.
Their alternative is a practice of receptivity they call “meta-poiesis”: learning again to be drawn out by craft, ritual, and shared moments of wonder. For readers thinking about technology and intelligence, the book is a reminder that meaning may be less a problem to be computed than a skill to be cultivated.
