Home in the World
The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectualsWhere is 'home'? For Amartya Sen, home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh, the little university town of Santiniketan, where he was raised as much by his grandparents as by his parents, Calcutta where he first studied economics and was active in student movements, and Trinity College, Cambridge, to which he came aged 19. Sen brilliantly recreates the atmosphere in each of these. He remembers his river journeys between Dhaka and his parents' ancestral homes and wonderfully explores the rich history and culture of Bengal. In 1943 h…
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- ISBN: 978-0-241-95536-9
- EAN: 9780241955369
- Produktnummer: 37681835
- Verlag: Penguin Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.9 cm x D3.5 cm 500 g
- Abbildungen: B-format paperback
- Gewicht: 500
- Sonstiges: Ab 0 J.
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Amartya Sen is Professor of Economics and Professor of Philosophy at Harvard. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1998 to 2004, and won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. His many celebrated books including Development as Freedom (1999), The Argumentative Indian (2005), Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (2007), and The Idea of Justice (2010), have been translated into more than 40 languages. In 2012 he received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama and in 2020 he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade by President Steinmeier.
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