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A Thousand Small Sanities (häftad, eng)
''WITTY, HUMANE, LEARNED'' NEW YORK TIMES
The New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defence...
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''WITTY, HUMANE, LEARNED'' NEW YORK TIMES
The New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defence of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time
Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and leftThe crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of faith in liberal institutions and, even worse, in liberal thought.
A Thousand Small Sanities is a manifesto rooted in the lives of people who invented and extended the liberal tradition. Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, and from Middlemarch to the civil rights movement, Adam Gopnik argues that liberalism is not a form of centrism, nor simply another word for free markets, nor merely a term denoting a set of rightsIt is something far more ambitious: the search for radical change by humane measures. Gopnik shows us why liberalism is one of the great moral adventures in human history--and why, in an age of autocracy, our lives may depend on its continuation.
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 256 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Quercus Publishing |
Utgivningsdatum | 2020-09-17 |
ISBN | 9781529401585 |
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- Häftad, 256, Engelska, Quercus Publishing, 2020-09-17, 9781529401585
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Specifikation
Böcker
- Format Häftad
- Antal sidor 256
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag Quercus Publishing
- Utgivningsdatum 2020-09-17
- ISBN 9781529401585