Contentment in Contention : Acceptance versus Aspiration

Palgrave Macmillan

Contentment in Contention\nby B. Southgate\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: B. Southgate\nTitle: Contentment in Contention\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social and cultural history\nPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan\nPublication year: 2012\nEdition: 1st ed. 2012\nISBN-13: 9781349346554\nISBN-10: 1349346551\nRRP: \u00A344.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nSouthgate 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 implicat.