This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
$10.99
Used hardback – Very Good condition. This book is a published version of David Foster Wallace's 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College, urging awareness of one's natural self-centered 'default setting' and the conscious choice to cultivate empathy and compassion in everyday adult life. It uses metaphors like fish unaware of water to highlight how education enables freedom through disciplined attention to others amid routine frustrations.
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Type: NON FICTION
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