Speakers: Michael Ignatieff, David Herman
How do we console each other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times, author and academic Michael Ignatieff shows how humans in extremity have looked to each other to recover hope and resilience. From Job and Camus to Anna Akhmatova and Primo Levi, he brings stories from across the centuries into the present. A unique career has seen him serve as Canada’s Leader of the Opposition as Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party predecessor, hold senior academic posts at Cambridge, Harvard and Central European University and write 20 books including The Ordinary Virtues and Isaiah Berlin: A Life. Don’t miss this rare UK event with one of the great thinkers and writers of our time. I conversation with David Herman.
