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Contentment in Contention: Acceptance Versus Aspiration

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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.

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Contentment in Contention: Acceptance Versus Aspiration 2012, Palgrave MacMillan, London

ISBN-13: 9781349346554

2012 edition

Trade paperback

Contentment in Contention: Acceptance versus Aspiration 2011, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

ISBN-13: 9780230354593

Hardcover