On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times Ignatieff Michael
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times Ignatieff Michael Timely and profound philosophical meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while…
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On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times Ignatieff Michael
Timely and profound philosophical 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. 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? 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, houses of religion, are often empty.
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