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The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times - Hardcover

Grayling, A. C.

 
9781632862464: The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1632862468 ISBN 13: 9781632862464
Verlag: BLOOMSBURY, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, invariably cause discussion.

The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections such as The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, collecting 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

A. C. Grayling is Master of the New College of the Humanities, UK. He has written and edited numerous works of philosophy and is the author of biographies of Descartes and William Hazlitt. He believes that philosophy should take an active, useful role in society. He has been a regular contributor to The Times, Financial Times, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Economist, Literary Review, New Statesman and Prospect, and is a frequent and popular contributor to radio and television programmes, including Newsnight, Today, In Our Time, Start the Week and CNN news. He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum at Davos, and advises on many committees ranging from Drug Testing at Work to human rights groups.

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Verlag
BLOOMSBURY
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1632862468
ISBN 13 
9781632862464
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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