02176cam a2200313 4500 233402432 TxAuBib 20150605120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781408864630 1408864630 3ee8bef9-176b-404e-9da6-55a91d83201e OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2136948 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Grayling, A. C. The Challenge of Things [Libby eBook] : Thinking Through Troubled Times. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 361kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>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.</p> <p><i>The Challenge of Things</i> joins earlier collections like <i>The Reason of Things</i> and <i>Thinking of Answers</i>, 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.</p> <p>Whether he is writing about the First World War and its legacy, free speech, the advantages of an atheist prime minister or the role of science in the arts, his essays are always enlightening, enlivening and hopeful.</p>. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-05 20:00:03. http://camellia.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=3ee8bef9-176b-404e-9da6-55a91d83201e https://samples.overdrive.com/challenge-of-things?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/challenge-of-things?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/challenge-of-things?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)