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Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance John Berger

Hold Everything Dear By John Berger

Summary

A powerful meditation on political resistance from one of the most original and influential thinkers of our times

Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance Summary

Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance by John Berger

From the War on Terror to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far extremes of human behaviour, and the underlying despair. Looking at Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq, he makes an impassioned attack on the poverty and loss of freedom at the heart of such unnecessary suffering. These essays offer reflections on the political at the core of artistic expression and even at the center of human existence itself.

Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance Reviews

"One of the most influential intellectuals of our time." - Observer "I admire and love John Berger's books ... Not since Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual world with responsiveness to the imperatives of conscience. He is a wonderful artist and thinker." - Susan Sontag "John Berger teaches us how to think, how to feel, how to stare at things till we see what we thought wasn't there. But above all he teaches us how to love in the face of adversity. He is a master." - Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things

About John Berger

"Berger is a writer one demands to know more about ... an intriguing and powerful mind and talent." - New York Times "Berger's is a humane and uniquely confiding voice." - Teju Cole

Table of Contents

"Powerful polemicist and precise poet." - Times "Berger is never less than eloquent... a heartfelt advocate of those without hope." - Metro "Any book by John Berger is an event ... admirers will recognise the characteristic blend of sympathy and lucidity, directness of address, human warmth, and cosmopolitan example." - Times Literary Supplement

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GOR010629930
9781784783723
1784783722
Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance by John Berger
Used - Like New
Paperback
Verso Books
2016-03-29
160
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