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A Friendship in Twilight - Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life (Hardcover)
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A Friendship in Twilight - Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life (Hardcover)
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In a time of plague, fundamental questions become immediate and
personal. The pandemic, droughts, floods, fire, political violence:
the world has been grimly reminded of the proximity and
inevitability of death. Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor-acclaimed
public intellectuals and scholars of religion, one a Christian and
the other an atheist, close friends for fifty years-have spent
their lives grappling with questions of ultimate concern. At the
onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, locked down at home and facing an
uncertain future, Miles and Taylor embarked on an extended
conversation about living and dying in an imperiled world. A
Friendship in Twilight is their plague journal. In raw and
searching letters, written daily from the first lockdowns through
the Capitol riot, Miles and Taylor reflect on life during
overlapping crises. Amid the menace of the pandemic and the
unceasing political turmoil, they debate the lessons that a
catastrophic present can teach about the future and how to read,
think, live, and face up to death. Confronting the vulnerability of
their aging bodies and the frailty of American democracy, the two
friends discuss why and how philosophical reflection matters for a
wounded world. Their conversations are imbued with an ever-present
sense of urgency about the worth of a life, the fragility of
existence, and the uncertainty of endings. Seamlessly moving from
heartfelt emotion to philosophical speculation, current events to
great art and literature, this book is a powerful and moving
testament to the precarity of life and to enduring friendship.
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