All things shining reading the western classics to find meaning in a secular age an unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives and yet our culture offers us no clear way to choose this predicament seems inevitable but in fact its quite new. Hubert dreyfus and sean dorrance kelly all things shining reading the western classics to find meaning in a secular age free press 2011 254pp 1500 pbk isbn 9781416596165. Dreyfus hubert l and sean kelly 2011 all things shining reading the western classics to find meaning in a secular age new york free press xi 254 p. All things shining reading the western classics to find meaning in a secular age by hubert dreyfus and sean dorrance kelly opened my eyes i was using the wrong standard to evaluate helens conduct she swooned for paris not as an act of betrayal to menelaus but because she had responded to aphroditess mood eros. In all things shining reading the western classics to find meaning in a secular age two distinguished philosophers hubert dreyfus and sean dorrance kelly have written an extraordinary ambitious and provocative tour de force that frames one of the central questions of our age how we have passed from the intense and meaningful lives of homers world to the indecision and sadness that too often characterizes modern times