A history that has never been told before: the story of the global search for moral truth.
Kenan Malik is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster. He is a presenter of Analysis of BBC Radio 4, and a panelist on The Moral Maze. He has taught at universities in Britain, Europe, Australia and the USA, presented many TV documentaries and writes regularly for newspapers across the world including the New York Times, the Guardian, G.teborgs-Posten and the Australian. His books include Man, Beast and Zombie, Strange Fruit and From Fatwa to Jihad, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Orwell Prize.
An absolute tour de force. I can imagine it replacing Bertrand
Russell's History of Western Philosophy on many a bookshelf -
certainly mine.
*Tom Holland*
This is an extraordinarily rewarding investigation of the most
striking, and contested, aspect of our humanity... To read it is
not only to be better informed but also to be more alert to the
assumptions that have guided human beings in the past, and to our
capacity for goodness and wickedness.
*Raymond Tallis*
What I love about Kenan Malik's book is its unashamed, unabashed
ambition: he wants to write the history of moral thought, not just
in the Western tradition, but of all the traditions that make up
the global argument about the direction that the human moral
compass should point. The result is a tour de force of lucidity and
narrative skill.
*Michael Ignatieff*
The Quest for a Moral Compass is a remarkable achievement... While
demonstrating genuine command of the subtleties of the hundreds of
topics covered, he consistently chooses the accessible, the
concise, the precise, and the broad-ranging over the technical,
theoretical, and trivial. I learned more than I can say and will no
doubt be consulting this book often in the future.
*Austin Dacey*
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