On Consolation : Finding Solace In Dark Times

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"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 i...

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9781039002944

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Read by Michael Ignatieff
Electronic reproduction. New York Random House of Canada 2021 Available via World Wide Web

Contents:

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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