02197cam a2200313 i 4500 1906841603 TxAuBib 20250225120000.0 241108s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781953368836 PAP 21.95 1953368832 PAP 21.95 (OCoLC)1468454111 TxAuBib rda Foiles, Jonathan. Reading Arendt in the waiting room [BOOK] : a philosophy primer for an anxious age / by Jonathan Foiles. Philosophy primer for an anxious age. First edition. Pittsburgh, PA : Belt Publishing, 2024. ©2024. 158 pages ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. "Anxiety may be the defining feeling of our current era, and though it affects many people on a deeply personal level, the last few years have also witnessed the rise of more communal feelings of dread and unknowing, problems that sometimes seem too big to face. Will the United States remain a democracy? Can we still have meaningful lives amid the rubble of late capitalism and the inevitable creep of climate change? How do we even start to grapple with a problem so large it seems to pervade almost every corner of our lives? In Reading Arendt in the Waiting Room, Jonathan Foiles, a licensed psychotherapist and lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, explains how philosophy can help us respond to these deep questions and communal worries about modern life. Read how Søren Kierkegaard can speak to feelings of helplessness in the face of police violence, how Hannah Arendt can help us rethink the seemingly unavoidable problem of a warming planet, and how social advocates like Jane Addams and Dorothy Day can offer hope and resolve in a world that sometimes seems like it’s already ended.". 20250225. Philosophy. Self-help publications.