What Are We Doing Here? (Essays) - Marilynne Robinson torrent

Category: Education, Political
Language: English
Keywords: America Essays Faith History Literary Literature Philosophy Religion Writing

Written by Marilynne Robinson
Read by Carrington MacDuffie
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 11h 07m

Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including ‘Lila’, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and ‘Gilead’, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith.

Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America, like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Alexis de Tocqueville, inform our political consciousness or discussing how beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson’s peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display.

‘What Are We Doing Here?’ is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as “deeply impressed by obligation [and as] a great theater of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still.”