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The Hidden Pleasures of Life :A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future
The Hidden Pleasures of Life :A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future
Theodore Zeldin
Price
595
ISBN
9788178244679
Language
English
Pages
430
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
2015
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Territorial Rights
Restricted
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Permanent Black
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What new priorities can people give to their private lives? How can one escape from work colleagues who are bores and from organisations that thrive on stress?
When the romantic ideal is disappointing, how else can affections be cultivated? If only a few can become rich, what substitute is there for dropping out? If religions and nations disagree, what other outcomes are possible beyond strife or doubt? Where there is too little freedom, what is the alternative to rebellion? When so much is unpredictable, what can replace ambition?
These are some of the questions asked and answered in this book by one of the world’s most famous, original, and idiosyncratic historians. Deploying examples from the whole history of human civilization—ranging from China and India to Europe and the Americas—Professor Zeldin comes up with some of the most fascinating insights and answers about the meaning of life and how to live it in the modern world.
Theodore Zeldin
has been named ‘one of the forty world figures whose ideas are likely to have a lasting relevance to the new millennium’ (Independent on Sunday). His books Conversation and An Intimate History of Humanity are international bestsellers. He has won the Wolfson Prize for history, been elected to the British Academy and the European Academy and been awarded the CBE. He is an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College and an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College in Oxford.