Contentment in Contention: Acceptance Versus Aspiration

By Beverley Southgate

Book Overview

Southgate draws on ideas within history, philosophy, literature, psychology, and theology to explore two traditions: contentment with our situation as it is, and the aspiration to transcend it. He discusses the possibility of escape from intellectual constraints, and advocates a positive 'duty of discontent', and its implications.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230354599
• ISBN13: 9780230354593
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"