{"product_id":"second-chances-by-adam-phillips-9780300276367","title":"Second Chances","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A compellingly readable and intelligent book. . . . Both authors write with impressive energy.\"—Rowan Williams, \u003cem\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance has been an essential feature of the literary imagination and a promise so central to our existence that we try to reproduce it again and again. Innumerable stories, from the Homeric epics to the New Testament, and from \u003cem\u003eOedipus Rex\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e, explore the realization or failure of second chances—outcomes that depend on accident, acts of will, or fate. Such stories let us repeatedly rehearse the experience of loss and recovery: to know the joy that comes with a renewal of love and pleasure and to face the pain that comes with realizing that some damage can never be undone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a series of illuminating readings, the authors show how Shakespeare was the supreme virtuoso of the second chance and Freud was its supreme interpreter. Both Shakespeare and Freud believed that we can narrate our life stories as tales of transformation, of momentous shifts, constrained by time and place but often still possible. Ranging from \u003cem\u003eThe Comedy of Errors\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e, and from D. W. Winnicott to Marcel Proust, the authors challenge readers to imagine how, as Phillips writes, \"it is the mending that matters.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362981593324,"sku":"9780300276367","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24761413482294.jpg?v=1772909079","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/second-chances-by-adam-phillips-9780300276367","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}