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On Consolation
Finding Solace in Dark Times
Taschenbuch von Michael Ignatieff
Sprache: Englisch

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When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes?war, famine, pandemic?we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, the houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its faith in science, ideology, and the therapeutic.

How do we console each other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In a series of lapidary meditations on writers, artists, musicians, and their works?from the biblical books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and Primo Levi?esteemed writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and resilience. Recreating the moments when great figures found the courage to confront their fate and the determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation takes those stories into the present, movingly contending that we can revive these traditions of consolation to meet the anguish and uncertainties of our precarious twenty-first century.
When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes?war, famine, pandemic?we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, the houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its faith in science, ideology, and the therapeutic.

How do we console each other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In a series of lapidary meditations on writers, artists, musicians, and their works?from the biblical books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and Primo Levi?esteemed writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and resilience. Recreating the moments when great figures found the courage to confront their fate and the determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation takes those stories into the present, movingly contending that we can revive these traditions of consolation to meet the anguish and uncertainties of our precarious twenty-first century.
Über den Autor
Michael Ignatieff is a writer, historian and former politician. He has taught at Cambridge, Oxford, the University of Toronto and Harvard and is currently university professor at Central European University in Vienna. His books, which have been translated into twelve languages, include Blood and Belonging, Isaiah Berlin: a life, The Needs of Strangers, The Russian Album and The Ordinary Virtues.
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Rubrik: Ratgeber
Thema: Lebensführung allgemein
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XVI
288 S.
ISBN-13: 9781529053784
ISBN-10: 1529053781
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ignatieff, Michael
Hersteller: Pan Macmillan
Maße: 233 x 154 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Ignatieff
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.11.2021
Gewicht: 0,378 kg
Artikel-ID: 119602004
Über den Autor
Michael Ignatieff is a writer, historian and former politician. He has taught at Cambridge, Oxford, the University of Toronto and Harvard and is currently university professor at Central European University in Vienna. His books, which have been translated into twelve languages, include Blood and Belonging, Isaiah Berlin: a life, The Needs of Strangers, The Russian Album and The Ordinary Virtues.
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Rubrik: Ratgeber
Thema: Lebensführung allgemein
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XVI
288 S.
ISBN-13: 9781529053784
ISBN-10: 1529053781
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ignatieff, Michael
Hersteller: Pan Macmillan
Maße: 233 x 154 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Ignatieff
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.11.2021
Gewicht: 0,378 kg
Artikel-ID: 119602004
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