Reading Arendt in the Waiting Room: A Philosophy Primer for an Anxious Age [Paperback]

Anxiety may be the defining feeling of our current era, and though it affects many people on a deeply personal level, the last few years have also witnessed the rise of more communal feelings of dread and unknowing, problems that sometimes seem too big to face. Will the United States remain a democracy? Can we still have meaningful lives amid the rubble of late capitalism and the inevitable creep of climate change? How do we even start to grapple with a problem so large it seems to pervade almost every corner of our lives?

InReading Arendt in the Waiting Room, Jonathan Foiles, a licensed psychotherapist and lecturer at the University of Chicagos Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, explains how philosophy can help us respond to these deep questions and communal worries about modern life. Read how S?ren Kierkegaard can speak to feelings of helplessness in the face of police violence, how Hannah Arendt can help us rethink the seemingly unavoidable problem of a warming planet, and how social advocates like Jane Addams and Dorothy Day can offer hope and resolve in a world that sometimes seems like its already ended.

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Thoughtful, discerning, personal, and accessible,Reading Arendt in the Waiting Roomwill serve as a concise companion for anyone looking to address our cultural unease and find new ways to face it together.?

Jonathan Foilesis a psychotherapist in private practice in Chicago. He is a lecturer at the University of Chicagos Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and clinical associate faculty at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. He is the author ofThis City Is Killing Me: Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban Americaand(Mis)Diagnosed: How Bias Distorts Our Perception of Mental Health, both from Belt Publishing.

"Reading Arendt in the Waiting Room