We'd like to introduce you to Elizabeth Finch. We invite you to take her course in Culture and Civilisation. She will change the way you see the world.
'The task of the present is to correct our understanding of the past. And that task becomes the more urgent when the past cannot be corrected.'Elizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, an inspiration - always rigorous, always thoughtful. With measured empathy, she guided her students to develop meaningful ideas and to discover their centres of seriousness.
As Neil, a former student, unpacks Elizabeth's notebooks, and remembers her uniquely inquisitive mind, her passion for reason resonates through the years. Her ideas unlock the philosophies of the past, and explore key events that show us how to make sense of our lives today. And underpinning them all is the story of J - Julian the Apostate, her historical soulmate and fellow challenger to the institutional and monotheistic thinking that has always threatened to divide us.
This is more than a novel. It's a loving tribute to philosophy, a careful evaluation of history, an invitation to think for ourselves. It's a moment to reflect and to gently explore our own theories and assumptions.
It is truly a balm for our times.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781787333932
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Fecha de lanzamiento: 14/04/2022
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes (Leicester, 1946) es va formar entre Londres i Oxford, i abans de convertir-se en escriptor va treballar com a lexicògraf, editor i crític de cinema. Se’l considera un dels grans autors de la narrativa anglesa de les darreres dècades. Entre les seves obres cal destacar El lloro de Flaubert (Premi Geoffrey Faber Memorial i, a França, Premi Médicis), Una història del mon en deu capítols i mig, Anglaterra, Anglaterra, Arthur & George i El sentit d’un final (Premi Booker). Ha estat finalista en tres ocasions del prestigiós Man Booker Price i ha rebut també, entre altres guardons, el Premi E. M. Forster de l’American Academy of Arts and Letters, el William Shakespeare de la Fundació FvS d’Hamburg i el Man Booker, i és Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.