On Equilibrium: Six Qualities of the New Humanism

by John Ralston Saul

Overview

This international bestseller and “intellectual tour de force” (The Montreal Gazette) is both an attack on our weakness for ideologies and a manual for humanist action.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476782249
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	07/22/2014
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	380
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

John Ralston Saul is the International President of PEN International, an essayist, novelist, and long-time champion of freedom of expression. His works have been translated into twenty-three languages in thirty countries, are widely taught in universities, and central to the debate over contemporary society in many countries. They include the philosophical trilogy: Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, The Doubter's Companion, The Unconscious Civilization, and its conclusion, On Equilibrium. In The Collapse of Globalism, he predicted today's economic crisis. In the autumn of 2012, he published his first novel in fifteen years, Dark Diversions: A Traveller’s Tale, a picaresque novel about the life of modern nouveaux riches.

His awards include South Korea’s Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, the Pablo Neruda Medal, Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction, the inaugural Gutenberg Galaxy Award for Literature, and Italy's Premio Letterario Internazionale. He is a Companion in the Order of Canada and a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France. He is the recipient of seventeen honorary degrees.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1	The Shape of Human Genius	1
Chapter 2	Common Sense	19
Chapter 3	Ethics	65
Chapter 4	Imagination	115
Chapter 5	Intuition	163
Chapter 6	Memory	213
Chapter 7	Reason	265
Chapter 8	Normal Behaviour	317
	Notes	331
	Acknowledgments	349
	Index	351