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The consolations of philosophy / Alain de Botton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Pantheon Books, c2000.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 264 p. : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0679442766
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 101 21
LOC classification:
  • BJ1595.5 .D43 2000
Contents:
I. Unpopularity -- II. Not Having Enough Money -- III. Frustration -- IV. Inadequacy -- V. A Broken Heart -- VI. Difficulties.
Review: "From the author of How Proust Can Change Your Life, a work that proves that philosophy can be a source of help for our most painful everyday problems."."Dividing his work into six sections - each highlighting a different psychic ailment and the appropriate philosopher - de Botton offers consolation for unpopularity from Socrates, for not having enough money from Epicurus, for frustration from Seneca, for inadequacy from Montaigne, and for a broken heart from Schopenhaver (the darkest of thinkers and yet, paradoxically, the most cheering).Consolation for envy - and, of course, the final word on consolation - comes from Nietzsche: "Not everything which makes us feel better is good for us.""--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Unpopularity -- II. Not Having Enough Money -- III. Frustration -- IV. Inadequacy -- V. A Broken Heart -- VI. Difficulties.

"From the author of How Proust Can Change Your Life, a work that proves that philosophy can be a source of help for our most painful everyday problems.".

"Dividing his work into six sections - each highlighting a different psychic ailment and the appropriate philosopher - de Botton offers consolation for unpopularity from Socrates, for not having enough money from Epicurus, for frustration from Seneca, for inadequacy from Montaigne, and for a broken heart from Schopenhaver (the darkest of thinkers and yet, paradoxically, the most cheering).

Consolation for envy - and, of course, the final word on consolation - comes from Nietzsche: "Not everything which makes us feel better is good for us.""--BOOK JACKET.

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