On consolation : finding solace in dark times
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New York : Metropolitan Books ;, 2021.
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
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Published
New York : Metropolitan Books ;, 2021.
Format
Book
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284 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"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 from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. 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? In a series of lapidary meditations on writers, artists, musicians, and their works-from the books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and Primo Levi-esteemed writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and resilience. Recreating the moments when great figures found the courage to confront their fate and the determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation takes those stories into the present, movingly contending that we can revive these traditions of consolation to meet the anguish and uncertainties of our precarious twenty-first century"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Ignatieff, M. (2021). On consolation: finding solace in dark times (First U.S. edition.). Metropolitan Books ;.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ignatieff, Michael. 2021. On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times. Metropolitan Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ignatieff, Michael. On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times Metropolitan Books, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Ignatieff, Michael. On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times First U.S. edition., Metropolitan Books ;, 2021.
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