On consolation : finding solace in dark times / Michael Ignatieff.
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- ISBN: 9780805055214
- ISBN: 0805055215
- Physical Description: xv, 284 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Metropolitan Books : 2021.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: After paradise -- The voice in the whirlwind : The book of Job and The book of Psalms -- Waiting for the Messiah : Paul's Epistles -- Cicero's tears : letters on the death of his daughter -- Facing the barbarians : Marcus Aurelius's Meditations -- The consolations of philosophy : Boethius and Dante -- The painting of time : El Greco's The burial of the Count of Orgaz -- The body's wisdom : Michel de Montaigne's last essays -- The unsent letter : David Hume's my own life -- The consolations of history : Condorcet's a sketch for a historical picture of the progress of the human mind -- The heart of heartless conditions : Karl Marx and The communist manifesto -- War and consolation : Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address -- Songs on the death of children : Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder -- The calling : Max Weber and the Protestant ethic -- The consolations of witness : Anna Akhmatova, Primo Levi, and Miklós Radnóti -- To live outside grace : Albert Camus's The plague -- Living in truth : Václav Havel's Letters to Olga -- The good death : Cicely Saunders and the hospice. |
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Subject: | Consolation. Consolation. PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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East Grand Forks Campbell Library | 152.4 IGNATIEFF 2021 (Text) | 521204 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |