Strangers drowning grappling with impossible idealism, drastic choices, and the overpowering urge to help
"What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; t...
| Main Author: | MacFarquhar, Larissa (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2015
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Table of Contents:
- For do-gooders, it is always wartime
- The bodies of strangers
- The most oppressed of all
- Duty! Thou sublime and mighty name that dost embrace nothing charming or insinuating, but requirest submission
- At once rational and ardent
- An accidental capability produced, in its boundless stupidity, by a biological process that is normally opposed to the expression of such a capability: the undermining of do-gooders, part one
- The humiliation of strangers
- The legacy of drunks: the undermining of do-gooders, part two
- One of those God things
- Kidneys
- Please reply to me as soon as possible
- The children of strangers
- The aspidistra is the Tree of Life: the undermining of do-gooders, part three
- From the point of view of the universe
- Something quite different from life.