Consolations of Philosophy

The Consolations of Philosophy is Alain de Botton's internationally bestselling guide to lifeThe inspiration for the TV series Philsophy: A Guide to HappinessAlain de Botton, bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life, has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on some of the things that bother us all: lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, ...