Timely and profound meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned historian of ideas and Booker Prize finalist Michael Ignatieff.
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 fro ...
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On Consolation
Finding Solace in Dark Times
Ignatieff, Michael
Kartoniert, 304 S.
Sprache: Englisch
235 mm
Macmillan Publishers International (2021)
Gewicht: 374 g
ISBN-13: 978-1-5290-5378-4
Titelnr.: 90522156