On consolation : finding solace in dark times /
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 offere...
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New York :
Metropolitan Books : Henry Holt and Company,
[2021].
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of 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.