On Being Unreasonable - Breaking the Rules and Making Things Better
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| Verlag | Faber & Faber |
| Auflage | 2023 |
| Seiten | 352 |
| Format | 13,7 x 3,2 x 22,4 cm |
| Gewicht | 467 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9780571366835 |
| Bestell-Nr | 57136683EA |
A unified theory of reasonableness - and how to be unreasonable for the right reasons.
§We're living in an age of division. From abortion rights to immigration, gun control to climate change, civil debate has gone out the window. Manners, order, and respect are being eroded. Why can't we all be reasonable?
The trouble is, what's 'reasonable' to one person is outrageous to another. Is it okay to let children play in the garden while others are working from home? To do your makeup on a train, or recline your seat on an aeroplane? What's the right way to breastfeed? To protect your neighbourhood? To protest against injustice and oppression? In a world where we all think we're being reasonable, how can we figure out what's right?
Looking back through history and around the world, Kirsty Sedgman set out to discover how unfairness and discrimination got baked into our social norms, dividing us along lines of gender, class, disability, sexuality, race... Instead of measuring human behaviour against outdated standards of rules and reason, On Being Unreasonab le argues that sometimes we need to act unreasonably to bring about positive change.
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If you're tired of trying to reason with people who have the power to decide the outcome before you begin, if you've ever wondered who gets to say what's reasonable in the first place (clue, the 'everyman' of the Clapham Omnibus looks and sounds a whole lot like the vast majority of every cabinet in British politics), if you know we can't go on this way but feel stifled and silenced by the insistence that it's just not reasonable to demand more or better - then this book is for you. Accessible, thoroughly researched, inclusive, and engaging, Sedgman's call to open our mouths, to step up, and to engage, unreasonably if necessary, may be just what we need in this moment. Stella Duffy, author, psychotherapist and activist
