Marilynne Robinson

What Are We Doing Here? (eBook, ePUB)

Essays

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winner

Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780374717780
• Artikelnr.: 49209979

Autorenporträt

Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Jack, a New York Times bestseller. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Robinson's non-fiction books include The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, The Death of Adam, and Mother Country. She is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for 'her grace and intelligence in writing.' Robinson lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
What Is Freedom of Conscience?
What Are We Doing Here?
Theology for this Moment
The Sacred, the Human
The Divine
The American Scholar Now
Grace and Beauty
A Proof, a Test, an Instruction
The Beautiful Changes
Our Public Conversation: How America Talks About Itself
Mind, Conscience, Soul
Considering the Theological Virtues: Faith, Hope, and Love
Integrity and the Modern Intellectual Tradition
Old Souls, New World
Slander

Rezensionen

Robinson urges her audience to stand by what makes us human - "creative, knowing, efficacious, deeply capable of loyalty". The argument is sophisticated and persuasive Guardian