{"product_id":"the-challenge-of-things-thinking-through-troubled-times","title":"The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times","description":"\u003cp\u003eA. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books are based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Challenge of Things\u003c\/em\u003e joins his earlier collections like \u003cem\u003eThe Reason of Things\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThinking of Answers\u003c\/em\u003e, but this time to collect Grayling's recent writings on the world in a time of war and conflict. In describing and exposing the dark side of things, he also explores ways out of the habits and prejudices of mind that would otherwise trap us forever in the deadly impasses of conflicts of all kinds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether he is writing about the First World War and its legacy, free speech, the advantages of an atheist prime minister or the role of science in the arts, his essays are always enlightening, enlivening and hopeful.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"A.C. Grayling","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964777164847,"sku":"9781408864647","price":499.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9781408864647.jpg?v=1771346218","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/the-challenge-of-things-thinking-through-troubled-times","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}