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Pub Date: 2010-08-24 Pages: 240 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US Vital insights and wisdom on the perennial question of why we fight This book explores how some of the greatest minds of civilization have tackled a question that continues to play a vital part in our lives today. In Why We Fight. Simon Van Booy curates an enlightening collection of excerpts. passages. and paintings. presenting works by Sophocles. Tacitus. Pieter Bruegel the Elder. William Shakespeare. Emily Bront. Abraham Lincoln. Charles Dickens . Victor Hugo. Walt Whitman. Friedrich Nietzsche. Oscar Wilde. James Tissot. James Joyce. General George Patton. and others. Why We Fight will engage both the serious philosopher and the eternally curious.
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Provocative and eye-opening, Why We Fight is one of three slim selections of philosophical texts and excerpts—along with Why We Need Love and Why Our Decisions Don’t Matter—introduced and contextualized by acclaimed author Simon Van Booy (Love Begins in Winter, The Secret Lives of People in Love).
Vital insights and wisdom on the perennial question of why we fight
This book explores how some of the greatest minds of civilization have tackled a question that continues to play a vital part in our lives today. In Why We Fight, Simon Van Booy curates an enlightening collection of excerpts, passages, and paintings, presenting works by Sophocles, Tacitus, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, William Shakespeare, Emily Brontė, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman, Friedrich Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, James Tissot, James Joyce, General George Patton, and others.
Why We Fight will engage both the serious philosopher and the eternally curious.
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