ISBN: 9781529053784 - on consolation: finding solace in dark times (5 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. 284 pages. cover worn & creased, When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe st rikes - war, famine, pandemic - we go in search of consolation. Once the provinc e of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of relig ion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its faith in science, ideolo gy, and the therapeutic.How do we console each other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In a series of portraits of writers, artists, and musicians searching for consolation - from the books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmato va, and Primo Levi - writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men and wo men in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and resil ience. Recreating the moments when great figures found the courage to confront t heir fate and the determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation takes those stories into the present, movingly contending that we can revive these traditio ns of consolation to meet the anguish and uncertainties of the twenty-first cent ury.…