4.7
كتب واقعية
We navigate our interactions with strangers according to a host of unwritten rules, rituals and (sometimes awkward) attempts at politeness. But what if the people we meet were not a problem, but a gift? When philosopher and traveller Will Buckingham's partner died, he sought solace in throwing open the door to new people. Now, as we reflect on our experiences of the pandemic and its enforced separations, and as global migration figures ever more prominently in our collective future, Buckingham brings together insights from philosophy, anthropology, history and literature to explore how our traditions of meeting the other can mitigate the issues of our time. How do we set aside our instinctive xenophobia – fear of outsiders – and embrace our equally natural philoxenia – love of strangers and newness? Taking in stories of loneliness, exile and friendship from classical times to the modern day, and alighting in adapting communities from Myanmar to Birmingham, Hello, Stranger offers an endlessly curious, uplifting and powerful antidote to our increasingly atomised world. 'A glorious book, fabulously learned and funny, and filled with all manner of stirring stories' Philip Marsden, author of The Summer Isles
© 2021 W. F. Howes Ltd (دفتر الصوت ): 9781004040919
تاريخ الإصدار
دفتر الصوت : ١ يوليو ٢٠٢١
الوسوم
4.7
كتب واقعية
We navigate our interactions with strangers according to a host of unwritten rules, rituals and (sometimes awkward) attempts at politeness. But what if the people we meet were not a problem, but a gift? When philosopher and traveller Will Buckingham's partner died, he sought solace in throwing open the door to new people. Now, as we reflect on our experiences of the pandemic and its enforced separations, and as global migration figures ever more prominently in our collective future, Buckingham brings together insights from philosophy, anthropology, history and literature to explore how our traditions of meeting the other can mitigate the issues of our time. How do we set aside our instinctive xenophobia – fear of outsiders – and embrace our equally natural philoxenia – love of strangers and newness? Taking in stories of loneliness, exile and friendship from classical times to the modern day, and alighting in adapting communities from Myanmar to Birmingham, Hello, Stranger offers an endlessly curious, uplifting and powerful antidote to our increasingly atomised world. 'A glorious book, fabulously learned and funny, and filled with all manner of stirring stories' Philip Marsden, author of The Summer Isles
© 2021 W. F. Howes Ltd (دفتر الصوت ): 9781004040919
تاريخ الإصدار
دفتر الصوت : ١ يوليو ٢٠٢١
الوسوم
خطوة إلى عالم لا حدود له من القصص
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حزين
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David
٢٥ يوليو ٢٠٢٢
From the cover, I thought it’s main idea is to help you meet more strangers and so, but it’s not quite this. It gives you a general idea about traditions and talks about how different people see guests and strangers in different lights. Technically it’s about travel, with a lot of personal stuff in the middle. At sometimes it’s so touching and on others, not so much. Did I regret reading it? No.
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