{"product_id":"seeking-meaning-and-making-sense-john-haldane-9781845401221","title":"Seeking Meaning and Making Sense","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of short essays that range across philosophy, politics, general culture, morality, science, religion and art, focusing on questions of meaning, value and understanding. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eENDORSEMENT BY\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Alan Massie\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Professor Haldane's essays are serious in the way that the great writers of the Scottish Enlightenment were serious. He asks what it means to be human in the twenty-first century, and what ethical obligations our idea of humanity imposes on us. They are provocative in the best, and only useful, sense of the word: inviting the reader to consider and respond to his arguments. Their range is wide, extending from a disquisition on the morality of stem-cell research to a very funny parody of 'The Da Vinci Code'.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTHE TABLET REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Tablet\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Christopher Howse\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJun 28, 2008\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Seeking Meaning and Making Sense\u003c\/em\u003e [is] a series of 20 essays on philosophy that add up to an argument for the human usefulness of thinking methodically about cosmology, society, ethics, religion and art... Haldane's interests are wide, embracing popular culture, from the Exorcist to John Buchan, and taking in native thinkers from the Scottish Enlightenment ... [and] he is adept at relating the slippery field of aesthetics to a wider world view. ... These essays are entertaining [and] possess a flavour of humanity, openness, urbanity, and an underlying infectious optimism in taking the cosmos to be intelligible and ethics as possible.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTHE CATHOLIC HERALD REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Catholic Herald\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Jonathan Wright\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSep 11, 2008\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Haldane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1845401220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781845401221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Imprint Academic (Ips)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.96h x 5.54w x 0.49d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2009 pg. 2","brand":"John Haldane","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46451010044159,"sku":"9781845401221","price":17.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_414ae3f5-df30-45ca-b345-a69ef520dae0.jpg?v=1735876167","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/seeking-meaning-and-making-sense-john-haldane-9781845401221","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}