However, the juxtaposition of my statement about certain approaches being «stupid» and a reference to a book by Wiker and Witt [A Meaningful World: How the Arts And.... (firstthings.com)
The Enlightenment emphasis was on the primacy of man as a rationally autonomous ethical being, fully capable of constructing a meaningful world for himself. (firstthings.com)
Rather than situating us in a meaningful world, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum bombards us with sensory stimuli and factoids on the assumption that something is bound to hit home. (firstthings.com)