In Praise of Meekness: Essays on Ethnics and PoliticsISBN: 978-0-7456-2308-5
Hardcover
200 pages
November 2000, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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'Bobbio ... has been a remarkably influential figure in
practical politics. A leading luminary of the political wing of the
Italian Resistance, twice imprisoned by Mussolini, he became after
the war a sympathetic yet stringent critic of the Italian Communist
Party ... Today, still active at the age of 91, he is an Italian
life senator, an emeritus professor, and a figure of sage-like,
oracular status ... [These pieces] have some sharp insights to
offer into the distinction between tolerance and scepticism, the
sources of human prejudice and the relations between ethics and
politics.' Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books
'This book is remarkable for its capacity to arouse incisive thinking about everyday problems, and to convince "deeply and yet meekly".' Millennium