The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future - Couverture souple

Zeldin, Theodore

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0857053701 ISBN 13 : 9780857053701

Editeur : MacLehose Press, 2015

Synopsis

What is the point of working so hard?

What can replace the shortage of soulmates?

What else can one do in a hotel?

Through these questions, and many others, Zeldin demonstrates that both the greatest problem and the greatest opportunity of the twenty-first century lie in our relationships with others. With endless examples from his unparalleled research and his experiences with the giants of modern business and politics, this book reveals how our society is full of untapped potential for human interactions. Zeldin illuminates how our lives can be enriched by the realisation that it is only by truly relating to others that we get a taste, even just a nibble, of what it is possible to experience as a human being.

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À propos de l'auteur

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), and 'one of Britain's leading intellects' (Management Today). His books Conversation and An Intimate History of Humanity are international bestsellers. For his studies of France he has been called 'a modern Balzac', 'not just funny, [but also] intelligent, loving, caustic, learned, light-hearted, serious, brilliant' - and he has been made a Commander of the Légion d'Honneur. 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: MacLehose Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0857053701
• ISBN 13: 9780857053701
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432
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• Personne responsable: non disponible