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The Case Against Travel

The Case Against Travel

Callard, Agnes

Paperback

Series: Eris Gems

PhilosophyLetters & Essays

ISBN10: 1916809812
ISBN13: 9781916809819
Publisher: Eris
Published: Sep 24 2024
Pages: 20
Weight: 0.05
Height: 0.40 Width: 0.10 Depth: 7.40
Language: English

Although people like to talk about their travels, few of us like to listen to them. Such talk resembles academic writing and reports of dreams: forms of communication driven more by the needs of the producer than the consumer.

In The Case Against Travel the philosopher Agnes Callard launches a vigorous assault on the idea that there is something transformative or ennobling about recreational travel. Going well beyond commonplace complaints about the irksomeness of tourists, Callard's essay is a probing inquiry into what it really means to change one's life, and into the ways in which we try to disguise the fact that life will come to an end.

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