A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular.
The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, but this time to collect Grayling's recent writings on the world in a time of war and conflict. In describing and exposing the dark side of things, he also explores ways out of the habits and prejudices of mind that would otherwise trap us forever in the deadly impasses of conflicts of all kinds.
Whether he is writing about the First World War and its legacy, free speech, the advantages of an atheist prime minister or the role of science in the arts, his essays are always enlightening, enlivening and hopeful.
- ISBN10 1632862468
- ISBN13 9781632862464
- Publish Date 8 December 2015 (first published 12 March 2015)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 June 2021
- Imprint Bloomsbury USA
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English