Swiss-born author Alain de Botton arrived in the UK aged 12 and never left (despite not immediately adoring it). He read history at Cambridge and philosophy at King’s College London. He pursued a phd at Harvard before dropping out to concentrate on his thoughtful and bewitching books for ...
De Botton has written the ultimate manual for our news-addicted age, one sure to bring calm, understanding and a measure of sanity to our daily (perhaps even hourly) interactions with the news machine. Inspired by writing the book, he created a news outlet The Philosopher’s Mail which grew...
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少年维特的喜悦 - AlainDeBotton 어떤 존재는 이 세상의 눈에는 경이로 비칠 수 있다. 任何形式的存在,都是世上值得惊异的存在。 하지만 그의 부인과 하인들은 그 사람에게 놀랄 만한 것을 전혀 보지 못한다. 但...
It started in 1997, when Alain de Botton turned away from writing novels and instead wrote a touching extended essay titledHow Proust Can Change Your Life, which became an unlikely blockbuster in the "self-help"category. His subsequent books take on some of the fundamental worries of modern li...
(2000), established what de Botton was really about - writing what were effectively self-help books designed to encourage readers to think for themselves and not regurgitate received ideas. He restored philosophy to a lay audience, much to the fury of academic philosophers who always wanted to ...
(Laughter)And the consequences of this problem make themselves felt in bookshops. When you go to a large bookshop and look at the self-help sections,as I sometimes do, if you analyze self-help books that are produced in the world today, there are basically two kinds. The first kind ...
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词汇注释A Traveling Mindset①Alain de Botton① mindset/'maIndset/n.观念模式;思维倾向1 In the spring of 1790, a twenty-seven-year-old Frenchman named Xavierde Maistre took a journey around his bedroom, an account of which he②entitle/In'taItl/v给would later entitle Journey Around My Bedroom...
What kind of topics do you find when you look at self help books? What is a meritocracy? What is the problem if you believe in a meritocracy? Who is now responsible for our lives? You own your success, but also your …. Which random factors stand in the way of a true meritocracy?