LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jake goldsmith

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  • In Extremis
    Jake Goldsmith
    In these essays, originally written for the quarterly journal Exacting Clam, Jake Goldsmith dissects the foundations of our uneasy present with unflinching honesty and a 'physiological urgency to have a say' driven by his experience of chronic life-threatening illness.Ranging from confronting what imperils us-the fragility of liberal democracy, the decline of universities, tech...
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  • In Hospital Environments
    Jake Goldsmith
    In these essays-dealing variously with illness and disability, writing and reading, liberty and apathy, distrust and expertise, Raymond Aron and liberalism, love and grief, and Jake’s cat Lemons-Jake Goldsmith, author of Neither Weak Nor Obtuse and founder of the Barbellion Prize, demonstrates that the root of philosophy is the courage of honesty. With illustrations by Wend Ren...
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  • Neither Weak Nor Obtuse
    Jake Goldsmith
    'I am very ill. That would be the first and most obvious thing to know.' Thus Jake Goldsmith, a young man with cystic fibrosis, begins this memoir, a sustained, profoundly honest and searching reflection upon the phenomenology of illness: how we perceive and respond to living with illness and dying from it, and how we fearfully evade doing so. His impassioned writing, marked by...
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