Home in the World

Name: Home in the World
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SKU: 9780241955369
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A Memoir

By Amartya Sen

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Home in the World by Amartya Sen offers an engaging exploration of the Nobel laureate's early life, capturing his formative experiences across India, Bangladesh, and the UK. The memoir reflects on his personal growth, the influence of his family, and his early influences, in addition to providing insights into his intellectual journey and the historical events that shaped his worldview. Through vibrant storytelling, Sen provides readers a glimpse into how these diverse experiences informed his groundbreaking work in economics and social justice.
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You might enjoy this biography if you are fascinated by the life journeys of influential scholars and thinkers. Amartya Sen's memoir offers deep insights into his intellectual development and personal experiences across continents, blending personal narrative with social reflections. If you're interested in a thoughtful exploration of history, philosophy, and cultural identity, this book may be a captivating read for you.

Home in the World

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The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectuals.

Where 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.

Home in the World shows how Sen's experience shaped his ideas - about economics, philosophy, identity, community, famines, gender inequality, social choice and the power of discussion in public life. The joys of learning and the importance of friendship are powerfully conveyed.

He invokes some of the great thinkers of the past and his own time - from Ashoka in the third century BC and Akbar in the sixteenth, to David Hume, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Maurice Dobb, Kenneth Arrow and Eric Hobsbawm. Above all, Sen emphasises the importance of enlarging our views as much as we can, of human sympathy and understanding across time and distance, and of being at home in the world.

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Amartya Sen's Home in the World is celebrated for its engaging and charming narrative, highlighting his life as a citizen of the world with an exceptional intellect. Reviewers praise Sen's elegant and witty prose, offering a captivating journey through his formative years and intellectual development. The memoir is appreciated for its depth, humanity, and accessibility, often compared to the style of Tagore, and admired for combining academic insight with light-hearted storytelling.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241955369

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 June 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 333g

Pages: 480

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About the Author

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.