The Consolations Of Philosophy

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Publisher Place: Ringwood
Publisher Year: 2000
Edition: First Edition

Description: 272 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy takes the discipline of logic and the mind back to its roots. Drawing inspiration from six of the finest minds in history - Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche - he addresses lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety and conformity. De Botton's book led one critic to call philosophy ' Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy takes the discipline of logic and the mind back to its roots. Drawing inspiration from six of the finest minds in history - Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche - he addresses lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety and conformity. De Botton's book led one critic to call philosophy 'the new rock and roll'. ...more

ISBN: 9780241140116