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    Anomie: Everything, Volume One
    Anomie: Everything, Volume One
    Anomie: Everything, Volume One
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    Anomie: Everything, Volume One

    By Steven DeLay

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    Sartre and Camus held that existence is absurd, that consequently meaning is forged through the individual who must create it, a Promethean doctrine of reality which today has come to exercise a grip on us so firmly that we barely notice it, much less ever think to seriously question it. To be sure, the world is absurd. But existence as such? In this debut novel, Christian existentialist Steven DeLay tells the story of a knight of faith's quest for meaning. In his resulting voyage from the suburbs of Texas to the secret societies of Oxford, he encounters the ineluctable claim of eternity on the everyday. Part fairy tale, noir mystery, psychological thriller, and essay in existential philosophy, Everything's first volume, Anomie, explores the condition of nihilism in modern culture.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateJun 2, 2022
    ISBN9781666798852
    Anomie: Everything, Volume One
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    Steven DeLay

    Steven DeLay is a writer living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. An Old Member of Christ Church, Oxford, he is the author of Everything (2022), In the Spirit (2021), Before God (2020), and Phenomenology in France (2019). He is also the editor of Life above the Clouds: Philosophy in the Films of Terrence Malick (2022) and editor of Finding Meaning: Philosophy in Crisis (2023) based on the series of online essays, "Finding Meaning," at 3:16 AM.

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