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ISBN-10: 0262610981
ISBN-13: 9780262610988
Publisher: MIT Press
Publish Date: 03/29/1994
Dimensions: 8.94" L, 5.87" W, 0.71" H

Pietà (Revised)

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“George Klein’s voice is pensive, poetic, simple in a deep way. It is, ultimately, the warm voice of a man who is forever intrigued by life, who loves to decipher what he sees but who equally loves the undecipherable.”
— Amos Oz As Albert Camus’s famous dictum has it, the only truly important philosophical question is suicide, or whether life is worth living. Now, in Pietà , his latest collection of essays, George Klein — distinguished biologist, writer, Holocaust survivor, and humanist — faces this question head-on, in a series of meditations on subjects ranging from the misuses of science to the vital importance of art, music, and literature to surviving catastrophes like the Holocaust and AIDS. “Pietà ” is a passionate book of scientific and personal ethics, inspired by tragic events that resonate in the consciousness of each of us.

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" George Klein's voice is pensive, poetic, simple in a deep way. It is, ultimately, the warm voice of a man who is forever intrigued by life, who loves to decipher what be sees but who equally loves the undecipherable." – Amos Oz
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ISBN-10: 0262610981
ISBN-13: 9780262610988
Publisher: MIT Press
Publish Date: 03/29/1994
Dimensions: 8.94" L, 5.87" W, 0.71" H
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