Welcome to Everytown: A Journey into the English Mind
Baggini, Julian
What do the English think? Every country has a dominant set of beliefs and attitudes concerning everything from how to live a good life, how we should organize society, and the roles of the sexes. Yet despite many attempts to define our national character, what might be called the nation`s philosophy has remained largely unexamined. Until now. Philosopher Julian Baggini pinpointed postcode S66 on the outskirts of Rotherham, as England in microcosm - an area which reflected most accurately the full range of the nation`s inhabitants, its most typical mix of urban and rural, old and young, married and then spent six months living there, immersing himself in this typical English Everytown, in order to get to know the mind of a people. It...
ISBN: 978-1-86207-998-4
Издательство:
Wordsworth
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
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