| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
264 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Unpopularity -- Not having enough money -- Frustration -- Inadquacy -- A broken heart -- Difficulties. |
| Summary |
"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.""--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Philosophical counseling.
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Philosophical counseling. (OCoLC)fst01060769
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| ISBN |
0679442766 |
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9780679442769 |
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