Meenal baghel biography of michael
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Meenal Baghel picks her favourite read of 2024
“For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible,” wrote Nietzsche.
But for those made of less stern stuff, the temptation to seek transcendence from grief and setbacks, is ever-present.
Meenal baghel biography of michael
But where does one find solace? This is the central question in Michael Ignatieff’s On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times.
“The churches, synagogues, and mosques, where we once consoled each other in collective rituals of grief and mourning, have been emptying out,” he writes.
“If we seek help in times of misery, we seek it alone, from each other, and from therapeutic professionals. They treat our suffering as an illness from which we need to recover.”
The Canadian writer, best-known for that granular memoir about his émigré family, The Russian Album — also at its heart a book about resilience — parses history instead, and offers a series of reflecti