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Welcome to Everytown
Julian Baggini
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Description for Welcome to Everytown
Paperback. Provides an account of the English and a portrait of its people and a story about being an alien in your own land. This book shows a country in which the familiar becomes strange, and the strange familiar. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 200.
What do the English think? Every country has a dominant set of beliefs and attitudes concerning everything from how to live a good life, how we should organize society, and the roles of the sexes. Yet despite many attempts to define our national character, what might be called the nation's philosophy has remained largely unexamined until now. Philosopher Julian Baggini pinpointed postcode S66 on the outskirts of Rotherham as England in microcosm - an area that reflected most accurately the full range of the nation's inhabitants, its most typical mix of urban and rural, old and young, married and single. ... Read more
What do the English think? Every country has a dominant set of beliefs and attitudes concerning everything from how to live a good life, how we should organize society, and the roles of the sexes. Yet despite many attempts to define our national character, what might be called the nation's philosophy has remained largely unexamined until now. Philosopher Julian Baggini pinpointed postcode S66 on the outskirts of Rotherham as England in microcosm - an area that reflected most accurately the full range of the nation's inhabitants, its most typical mix of urban and rural, old and young, married and single. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781862079984
SKU
V9781862079984
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About Julian Baggini
Julian Baggini is the editor and co-founder of The Philosophers' Magazine. His booksinclude Do You Think What You Think You Think? (with Jeremy Stangroom), What's ItAll About? - Philosophy and the Meaning of Life and the bestselling The Pig That Wantsto be Eaten, all published by Granta Books.
Reviews for Welcome to Everytown
This is a thoughtful, sympathetic portrait of white working-class life which is essential reading
Guardian
Few set out to ask the ordinary English what they think. Baggini brings a refreshing empathy
Financial Times
Baginnin observes Rotherham closely and wittily
Herald
Fascinating localised detail of the lives of ordinary British people ... sophisticated open-minded analysis ... Read more
Guardian
Few set out to ask the ordinary English what they think. Baggini brings a refreshing empathy
Financial Times
Baginnin observes Rotherham closely and wittily
Herald
Fascinating localised detail of the lives of ordinary British people ... sophisticated open-minded analysis ... Read more