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What are we doing here? : essays / Marilynne Robinson

By:

Robinson, Marilynne

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: 315 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780374282219

Uniform titles:

Essays. Selections

Subject(s):

Essays

DDC classification:

814.54 ROB 23

Summary: In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America like Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson’s peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display. What Are We Doing Here? is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as “deeply impressed by obligation [and as] a great theater of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still."

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	814.54 ROB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	non fiction		033804

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In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America like Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson’s peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display. What Are We Doing Here? is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as “deeply impressed by obligation [and as] a great theater of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still."

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