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The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times
A. C. Grayling
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Description for The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DN; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular. The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, but this time to collect 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. ... Read more
A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular. The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, but this time to collect 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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408864623
SKU
V9781408864623
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About A. C. Grayling
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times
Grayling is particularly good at illuminating the knottiness of moral discourse
Sunday Times
Grayling writes with clarity, elegance and the occasional aphoristic twist, conscious of standing in that long essayistic tradition that runs from Montaigne and Bacon to Emerson and Thoreau
Daily Telegraph
If there is any such person in Britain as The Thinking Man, it ... Read more
Sunday Times
Grayling writes with clarity, elegance and the occasional aphoristic twist, conscious of standing in that long essayistic tradition that runs from Montaigne and Bacon to Emerson and Thoreau
Daily Telegraph
If there is any such person in Britain as The Thinking Man, it ... Read more