A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular.
The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, but this time to collect Grayling's recent writings on the world in a time of war and conflict. In describing and exposing the dark side of things, he also explores ways out of the habits and prejudices of mind that would otherwise trap us forever in the deadly impasses of conflicts of all kinds.
Whether he is writing about the First World War and its legacy, free speech, the advantages of an atheist prime minister or the role of science in the arts, his essays are always enlightening, enlivening and hopeful.
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Grayling is particularly good at illuminating the knottiness of moral discourse
A new collection of essays on our conflicted and prejudiced world by the best-selling author of The God Argument and The Reason of Things
A. C. Grayling, this year’s Booker Prize Chairman, writes broadly across the national press and is constantly in the media spotlight
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781408864623
Publisert
2016-03-10
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
256 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320
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