{"product_id":"on-being-ignored-g-v-loewen-9781682352595","title":"On Being Ignored: And other necessities of the examined life","description":"\u003cp\u003eEthics, Cultural Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe critical social philosopher is the auditor-general of contemporary society and culture. These essays speak for themselves. Their content may be popular, but their reflections may not be. By promoting our abject failures as successes - my children respect me, our schools are superior, we love nature, we defend freedom, our God is great, and so on - we have found a way to bypass the critical reality check that the wider world around us would present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe have found a way to escape the critical human freedom that is our universal birthright. This is where the auditor of the human condition, with only hope and a narrow glance to make him equal to that unreality, steps in. If the book's essays and editorials have any merit, it must fall on the side of the world as it is, and not as we, with desperation and misplaced conviction, with jealousy and even rage, desire it to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn thirty essays and editorials written between 2016 and 2020, social philosopher G.V. Loewen examines some of our most pressing contemporary issues, finding that they are linked, inevitably and inextricably, with some of the most profound and perennial aspects of the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith wit, candor and compassion, these short analyses connect our often short-circuited attention to the deeper meaning of the state of the world, spanning the conflicts of nations, sexual identity politics, the climate crisis, global inequalities, the education and raising of children, and our understanding of the darker recesses of our own selfhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Bio: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eG.V. Loewen is the author of forty books on ethics, education, religion, aesthetics, health and social theory, and more recently, metaphysical adventure fiction. He was a professor of the interdisciplinary human sciences for two decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e G. V. Loewen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1682352595\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781682352595\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Strategic Book Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/04\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d","brand":"G. V. Loewen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48241439670527,"sku":"9781682352595","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f8897525-2709-4437-8a37-3d399dfe7c15.jpg?v=1772654416","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-being-ignored-g-v-loewen-9781682352595","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}