Contentment in Contention: Acceptance versus Aspiration

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. 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.

• | Author: B. Southgate
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jan 01, 2012
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781349346554
• | ISBN-10: 1349346551