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The Challenge of Things

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

The Challenge of Things

By A. C. Grayling

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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.The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, 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 fore...Show more

Biography and non-fiction prose

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9781408864623

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published year

2016

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The Challenge of Things

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Paperback

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