The Return of Courage

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The Return
of Courage
Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber
Translation by Francis Frenaye
Building on the French existentialist tra-
dition of Sartre and Camus, distinguished
French journalist and television personal-
ity Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber helps us
confront the challenges of an increasingly
complex world by drawing on our great,
but neglected, inner resource—courage.
For Servan-Schreiber, courage is the missing
link that can give meaning to our lives. It is
not the classical courage used in times of
war and similar adversity but rather what
Servan-Schreiber calls daily courage that
allows us to live life to the fullest.
Too often we are paralyzed by the im-
plicit threats of contemporary life—nuclear
war, joblessness, illness—and by a blurred
perception of death. Courage helps us take
action and thereby overcome our fears and
inertia. With daily courage we are able to get
up in the morning and face the common-
place; to... Tovább

Fülszöveg

m M: I
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II.
The Return
of Courage
Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber
Translation by Francis Frenaye
Building on the French existentialist tra-
dition of Sartre and Camus, distinguished
French journalist and television personal-
ity Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber helps us
confront the challenges of an increasingly
complex world by drawing on our great,
but neglected, inner resource—courage.
For Servan-Schreiber, courage is the missing
link that can give meaning to our lives. It is
not the classical courage used in times of
war and similar adversity but rather what
Servan-Schreiber calls daily courage that
allows us to live life to the fullest.
Too often we are paralyzed by the im-
plicit threats of contemporary life—nuclear
war, joblessness, illness—and by a blurred
perception of death. Courage helps us take
action and thereby overcome our fears and
inertia. With daily courage we are able to get
up in the morning and face the common-
place; to say "no" and not blame ourselves;
to endure and go on.
With wit and vision, Servan-Schreiber
cuts through the message beamed at us that
in order to be happy we must have eternal
youth, power, and wealth. He lays out com-
pelling strategies for recognizing and con-
fronting the negative side of life—the frailty,
anxiety, solitude, and ignorance—in order
to achieve true happiness and peace.
The Return of Courage is a compelling
statement against the inertia that threatens Vissza