Alain de Botton, best-selling author of How Proust can Change Your Life, has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche . . .
Alain de Botton was born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1969. He is the author of Essays in Love, The Romantic Movement, Kiss and Tell, How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel, Status Anxiety, The Architecture of Happiness, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, A Week at the Airport, Religion for Atheists, How to Think More About Sex, Art as Therapy, and The News: A User's Manual. Alain is a bestselling author in 30 countries. He lives in London, where he runs The School of Life and Living Architecture. Alain de Botton's first novel in nearly two decades, The Course of Love, will be published in April 2016.
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
*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
*Irish Times*
Witty, thoughful, entertaining ... a stylish book, which manages to make philosophy both enjoyable and relevant, at the same time providing a very sensible digest of consolations for many of our current psychological ills Literary Review Single-handedly, de Botton has taken philosophy back to its simplest and most important purpose: helping us to live our lives Independent A pleasure to read. And good writing, like good philosophy, is always a consolation -- John Banville Irish Times
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