✰ 英美加媒體推薦哲學解憂箋 葉禮廷集政治人物、學者和作家等身分，是國際知名思想史學者。 本書叩問歷史、文學、音樂和藝術領域的偉大人物，在面對逆境時如何尋求慰藉，切合當前讀者的需求。 曾入圍布克獎的作家Michael Ignatieff透過過去知名作家、藝術家、哲學家們面對人生中各種悲痛的打擊，如何透過畫作或文字度過並撫平傷痛，為人心帶來療癒的力量。 As read on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week', a timely, moving and profound exploration of how writers, composers and artists have searched for solace while facing loss, tragedy and crisis, from the historian and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Michael Ignatieff. When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes – war, famine, pandemic – we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its faith in science, ideology, and the therapeutic.