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Home: A Very Short Introduction - Softcover

Fox, Michael Allen

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Synopsis

Ideas of home play a prominent role in the way people of all cultures frame an understanding of their lives. This Very Short Introduction considers the enduring concept of home in our modern world, as international and local migration, homelessness, and uprootenedness threaten to destabilize our traditional notions of place and belonging.

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About the Author

Michael Allen Fox is Adjunct Professor, School of Humanities, University of New England, Australia, and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. His main research interests are in the areas of nineteenth-century European philosophy, existentialism, environmental philosophy, ethics and animals, and philosophy of peace. He is the author of five books that reflect a wide-ranging engagement with philosophy, the most recent of which are: Understanding Peace: A Comprehensive Introduction (Routledge, 2014) and The Remarkable Existentialists (Humanity/Prometheus, 2009). He has also published over sixty-five scholarly articles, many of which are aimed at a broad general readership. In addition, he edited/co-edited Queen's Quarterly, Canada's oldest general-interest intellectual review, for ten years

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