Dear Friend, You Must Change Your Life'
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Dear Friend, You Must Change Your Life'

The Letters of Great Thinkers

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Dear Friend, You Must Change Your Life'

The Letters of Great Thinkers

About this book

In Dear Friend, you must change your life, we see some of the most fascinating thinkers in history at their most private and profound, reaching out to a friend, sharing, testing, confirming discoveries about the complexity of life, how to rise above its hardships and enjoy its pleasures. We see writers embrace the roots of philosophical thought afresh, by grappling with real, lived experience, giving us unique insight into their ideas and worldviews that their more polished, public work often does not provide. We see artists sound the foundations of their artistic and moral integrity. Ranging from Seneca and Marcus Aurelius to Flora Tristan and Walter Benjamin, to Elizabeth of Bohemia and Giacomo Leopardi, to Mahatma Gandhi and Maurice Béjart, we see how the philosophical letter as a form of thinking, and thinking freely, spans across the ages and often forms some of the most interesting and lively of philosophical writings. Each letter is given a contextualising preface by an expert that brings out the reason this particular letter is a philosophical letter for life. As such, Dear Friend, you must change your life provides a unique introduction to an array of thinkers throughout history as well as an argument for philosophy as conversation, a conversation which has been ongoing for centuries.

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Information

Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781350089198
eBook ISBN
9781350089204
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 Be Present!
  8. 2 The Price of Time
  9. 3 The Self-Punishing Student of a Doting Teacher
  10. 4 A Philosophy for the Poor from a Cynical God
  11. 5 Real Philosophy for Real People
  12. 6 Good Intentions and the Resistance of Reality
  13. 7 ‘No. Colours are real.’
  14. 8 A Philosopher-Empress in a Revolutionary World
  15. 9 From Exile with Love
  16. 10 Erotic Affinities
  17. 11 Rational Empiricism?
  18. 12 ‘What then is Happiness, My Dear Friend?’
  19. 13 A Philosophy of Love
  20. 14 Just the Magnificence of Reality
  21. 15 De Profundis: A Philosophical Letter
  22. 16 A Correspondence Theory of Truth
  23. 17 Dispelling the Tower of Fear
  24. 18 The Epic Side of Truth
  25. 19 ‘A Shit on a Pedestal’
  26. 20 A Philosophy of Dance
  27. List of Contributors
  28. Acknowledgements
  29. Notes
  30. Index
  31. Copyright