The starting point of How Proust can change your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are highly worthwhile, rarely investigates why...
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In Ancient Greece or Rome, philosophers were seen as natural authorities on the most pressing questions. However, since then, the idea of finding wisdom from philosophy has come to seem bizarre. Enter a university department today and ask to...
What if religions are neither all true or all nonsense? The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain's inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of...
One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we’re surrounded by.
And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often...
This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us; about whether we're judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser. This is a book about status anxiety.
We...
Ален де Боттон – автор бестселлеров «Искусство путешествовать», «Утешение философией», «Опыты любви». Каждая из этих книг –...
The news is everywhere. We can’t stop constantly checking it on our computer screens, but what is this doing to our minds?
We are never really taught how to make sense of the torrent of news we face every day, writes Alain de Botton...
Первый же роман де Боттона «Опыты любви», написанный в возрасте двадцати трех лет, покорил сердца критиков, романтиков и эстетов по обе...
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Новости. Инструкция для пользователя
Почему мы смотрим новости? Что нас так в них привлекает и заставляет проводить столько времени у телевизора или монитора компьютера?
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Спустя более двадцати лет после написания «Опытов любви» Ален де Боттон вновь обращается к этой вечной теме.
Друзья Рабиха и Кирстен...