Philosophy and Life

<b>Professor A. C. Grayling</b> is Principal of the New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University London and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College Oxford. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy history science and current affairs. For several years he wrote columns for the <i>Guardian</i> newspaper and<i> The Times </i>and was the chairman of the 2014 Man Booker Prize. <b>Vivid .</b> . . a <b>panoramic sweeping </b>affair in which Grayling draws upon <i>Lebensphilosophie</i> in all its forms from the ancient Greeks to Friedrich Nietzsche Jean-Paul Sartre to contemporary thinkers such as Martha Nussbaum as well as poets artists and scientists <p><b>'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' </b>Steven Pinker<br><br><b>'An enthusiastic thinker who embraces humour common sense and lucidity' </b><i>Independent</i><br>_______________<br><br><b>From the eminent philosopher an authoritative exploration of the great questions of how to live</b><br><br><i>'There is a question everyone has to ask and answer - in fact has to keep on asking and keep on answering. It is 'How should I live my life?' meaning 'What values shall I live by? 'What sort of person should I be? What shall I aim for?' The great majority of people do not ask this question they merely answer it unthinkingly by adopting conventional views of life and what matters in it...'</i><br><br>From Stoics to existentialists in philosophy and literature discussion of the philosophy of life -- of love and death of courage fortitude and wisdom -- challenges us all to think about what kinds of life are truly worth living. In this summation of a lifetime thinking and writing about this great question A. C. Grayling explores with clarity and depth the ideas that each of us must use in answering it for ourselves.<br><br>Drawing on the lives experiences and works of a fantastically eclectic range of thinkers -- taking in not only philosophers such as Confucius Seneca and Nietzsche but also authors from Shakespeare to Ursula LeGuin and modern thinkers such as Martha Nussbaum and Bernard Williams - <i>Philosophy and Life</i> brings together wisdom from across eras and continents in a tour de force on the philosophy of being human in a complicated world.</p>