THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER One of the most influential voices in modern philosophy - the author of The Course of Love, Religion for Atheists, The Art of Travel and The School of Life Alain de Botton presents a one-stop shop for solving the problems of everyday life through the wisdom of history's great philosophers 'Singlehandedly, de Botton has taken philosophy back to its simplest and most important purpose: helping us live our lives' Independent 'Few discussions on the great philosophers can have been so ...
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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER One of the most influential voices in modern philosophy - the author of The Course of Love, Religion for Atheists, The Art of Travel and The School of Life Alain de Botton presents a one-stop shop for solving the problems of everyday life through the wisdom of history's great philosophers 'Singlehandedly, de Botton has taken philosophy back to its simplest and most important purpose: helping us live our lives' Independent 'Few discussions on the great philosophers can have been so entertaining... An ingenious, imaginative book' The Sunday Times 'Witty, thoughtful, entertaining... It manages to make philosophy both enjoyable and relevant' Anthony Clare, Literary Review 'No doubt about it, philosophy is the new rock and roll and Alain de Botton is its Colonel Tom Parker... A pleasure to read. And good writing, like good philosophy, is always a consolation' John Banville, Irish Times Alain de Botton has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Find out what Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche would say about the things that bother us all the most: lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety, the fear of failure and the pressure to conform.
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Alain De Botton has a gift, namely that of making relevant and easy to understand topics that are not normally tackled by the average layman. In "The Architecture of Happiness" he takes us on a journey through the fascinating world of architecture, showing us why we respond to it the way we do and how much of it is below the level of consciousness. Here, on the other hand, Alain strolls through the world of philosophy, choosing such big names as Socrates, Epicureus, Schopenhauer and others to speak to us about the angst, the fascination and the frustrations of this life by unwrapping for us the way the great philosophers thought about it.
Even if you've never taken a philosophy course in your life and generally don't care to, you will find something here to show you that philosophers aren't crazy men with too much time on their hands. Even if they most often get so wordy and complicated that we can not longer follow them, they are ultimately struggling with the very same questions that you and I do.
Very readable and good fun!