On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times

by Michael Ignatieff

Timely and profound philosophical meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned historian of ideas and Booker Prize finalist Michael Ignatieff.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805055223
• ISBN13: 9780805055221
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Metropolitan Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"