Meaninglessness

Dissecting the modern academic penchant for declaring our world inherently 'meaningless,' Michael Casey points the way toward a truer, nobler humanism. -- George Weigel
Michael Casey searchingly analyses the answers of influential enemies of transcedence. His masterful critique coolly exposes the dangers and horrors of "post-metaphysical" dystopias. He vindicates adherence to truth in the struggle for peace, humanity, and justice. -- Felipe Fernández-Armesto, William P. Reynolds Professor of History,University of Notre Dame
This is a very important book, on a very important question. . . . The author has mastered his writers and a mass of accompanying material with enviable skill and lucidity and made an important and original contribution to metaphysical analysis and exposition. -- Max Teichmann, Rockefeller Fellow in International Studies at the London School of Economics
A profound examination of meaninglessness in human life—and above all, of the unhelpful attempts by modern thinkers such as Nietzche, Freud, and Rorty to devise a therapy that will protect us from it. * First Things *
Fascinating. . . . Casey's critique of Rorty is one of the most pungent and compelling I've run across. . . . It is also an enormous relief to find Freud discussed intelligently rather than reductively. -- Jean Bethke Elshtain, The Laura Spelman Rockeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago; author of Just War Against Terror