{"product_id":"hello-stranger-how-we-find-connection-in-a-disconnected-world-von-will-buckingham","title":"Hello, Stranger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWe navigate our interactions with strangers according to a host of unwritten rules, rituals and (sometimes awkward) attempts at politeness. But what if the people we meet were not a problem, but a gift?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen philosopher and traveller Will Buckingham's partner died, he sought solace in throwing open the door to new people. Now, as we reflect on our experiences of the pandemic and its enforced separations, and as global migration figures ever more prominently in our collective future, Buckingham brings together insights from philosophy, anthropology, history and literature to explore how our traditions of meeting the other can mitigate the issues of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking in stories of loneliness, exile and friendship from classical times to the modern day, and alighting in adapting communities from Birmingham to Myanmar, \u003ci\u003eHello, Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e asks: how do we set aside our instinctive xenophobia - fear of outsiders - and embrace our equally natural philoxenia - love of strangers and newness?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Rutger Bregman and Adam Philips, a timely, humane and uplifting exploration of how our history of welcoming strangers can offer a vital antidote to our increasingly atomised world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781783785667\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eStories of Connection in a Divided World\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781783785667","offer_id":39418424950877,"sku":"9781783785667","price":14.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/ca7d7783-1e54-4c96-aaf4-cac9a1cefd54.jpg?v=1779941754","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/hello-stranger-how-we-find-connection-in-a-disconnected-world-von-will-buckingham","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}