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On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times

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內容簡介 面對人生中各種悲痛打擊，透過畫作、文字撫平傷痛✰ 英美加媒體推薦哲學解憂箋葉禮廷集政治人物、學者和作家等身分，是國際知名思想史學者。本書叩問歷史、文學、音樂和藝術領域的偉大人物，在面對逆境時如何尋求慰藉，切合當前讀者的需求。曾入圍布克獎的作家Michael Ignatieff透過過去知名作家、藝術家、哲學家們面對人生中各種悲痛的打擊，如何透過畫作或文字度過並撫平傷痛，為人心帶來療癒的力量。As read on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week', a timely, moving and profound exploration of how writers, composers and artists have searched for solace while facing loss, tragedy and crisis, from the historian and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Michael Ignatieff.'This erudite and heartfelt survey reminds us that the need for consolation is timeless, as are the inspiring words and examples of those who walked this path before us.' Toronto StarWhen 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 portraits of writers, artists, and musicians searching for consolation – from the books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and Primo Levi – 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 the twenty-first century."

作者介紹

作者介紹 Michael IgnatieffMichael Ignatieff is a writer, historian and former politician. He has taught at Cambridge, Oxford, the University of Toronto and Harvard and is currently university professor at Central European University in Vienna. His books, which have been translated into twelve languages, include Blood and Belonging, Isaiah Berlin: a life, The Needs of Strangers, The Russian Album and The Ordinary Virtues.

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