Contentment in Contention: Acceptance versus Aspiration

by Beverley Southgate (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $114.18

  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.