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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Unremarked DaysBefore you were old enough to weigh anything, a great deal was placed in you. The language you think in. The bend of your judgement. The company you were taught to keep and the company you were taught to avoid. The kind of work you honour without having decided to honour it. Most of what you carry came from people you never met, through people you barely thought about, and it has been furnishing the rooms of your mind ever since.This book is about what to do with what you find when you start to look.Written for the young person at the threshold - and for anyone older who recognises that threshold in themselves - The Unremarked Days offers a way of seeing that reaches from the kitchen table to the fate of nations. Across fourteen chapters organised in three movements, it walks the reader through what they have inherited, how the inheritance has shaped them, what they have been adding without registering themselves as makers, and what the kind of person they are becoming has to do with the kind of country they are living in.The book takes seriously the questions the surrounding culture has stopped asking well. What actually is trust, and why does it matter more than a feeling? What does work do to the worker across a career? What kind of friendship is required to become a person worth being, and why is it so rare? What happens to a country when its saying and its doing come apart, and how does a country find its way back? What would you have done, if you had been asked to hide the child the soldiers were hunting - and what does that question, honestly considered, ask of your life right now?The book does not tell the reader what to think. It offers a way of looking, and it asks the reader to do the work the framework makes possible - to find, in their own life, the shapes the chapters describe, and to see what has been in view the whole time.Written in unhurried prose, in the tradition of the great reflective essayists, The Unremarked Days is a book to be read slowly, one chapter at a time, and returned to across the years. It has been written for readers in Colombo and in Chicago, in Nairobi and in Melbourne, in Karachi and in Berlin - for anyone who has begun to suspect that the question of what kind of person to become matters more than the world around them is admitting.For readers who value: Books on character formation, moral philosophy for ordinary readers, the ethics of everyday life, philosophical reflection accessible to non-specialists, the philosophy of trust and integrity, coming-of-age reflection, formation of the young, moral courage in institutions, the question of what shapes a life.In the tradition of Wendell Berry, Marilynne Robinson, Alain de Botton, Rebecca Solnit, and the reflective essay in its longest form.The kind of person you become is laid down, mostly, in the days no one is paying attention to. The unremarked days are not preparation for the moments that matter. They are the moments that matter. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Unremarked DaysBefore you were old enough to weigh anything, a great deal was placed in you. The language you think in. The bend of your judgement. The company you were taught to keep and the company you were taught to avoid. The kind of work you honour without having decided to honour it. Most of what you carry came from people you never met, through people you barely thought about, and it has been furnishing the rooms of your mind ever since.This book is about what to do with what you find when you start to look.Written for the young person at the threshold - and for anyone older who recognises that threshold in themselves - The Unremarked Days offers a way of seeing that reaches from the kitchen table to the fate of nations. Across fourteen chapters organised in three movements, it walks the reader through what they have inherited, how the inheritance has shaped them, what they have been adding without registering themselves as makers, and what the kind of person they are becoming has to do with the kind of country they are living in.The book takes seriously the questions the surrounding culture has stopped asking well. What actually is trust, and why does it matter more than a feeling? What does work do to the worker across a career? What kind of friendship is required to become a person worth being, and why is it so rare? What happens to a country when its saying and its doing come apart, and how does a country find its way back? What would you have done, if you had been asked to hide the child the soldiers were hunting - and what does that question, honestly considered, ask of your life right now?The book does not tell the reader what to think. It offers a way of looking, and it asks the reader to do the work the framework makes possible - to find, in their own life, the shapes the chapters describe, and to see what has been in view the whole time.Written in unhurried prose, in the tradition of the great reflective essayists, The Unremarked Days is a book to be read slowly, one chapter at a time, and returned to across the years. It has been written for readers in Colombo and in Chicago, in Nairobi and in Melbourne, in Karachi and in Berlin - for anyone who has begun to suspect that the question of what kind of person to become matters more than the world around them is admitting.For readers who value: Books on character formation, moral philosophy for ordinary readers, the ethics of everyday life, philosophical reflection accessible to non-specialists, the philosophy of trust and integrity, coming-of-age reflection, formation of the young, moral courage in institutions, the question of what shapes a life.In the tradition of Wendell Berry, Marilynne Robinson, Alain de Botton, Rebecca Solnit, and the reflective essay in its longest form.The kind of person you become is laid down, mostly, in the days no one is paying attention to. The unremarked days are not preparation for the moments that matter. They are the moments that matter. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…