Книга: Alain de Botton «The Art of Travel»
Производитель: "Penguin Group" Provides an insight into everything from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars, airports to sight-seeing. This book suggests how we might be happier on our journeys. Издательство: "Penguin Group" (2014)
ISBN: 978-0-241-97006-5 |
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Alain de Botton
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Alain de Botton, (born Personal life Alain's family originates from a small He currently lives in Early life and education De Botton is the son of De Botton was educated at the He began a Writing De Botton has written essayistic books, which refer both to his own experiences and ideas interwoven with those of artists, philosophers, and thinkers. It is a style of writing that has been referred to as a "philosophy of In his first novel, " [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Essays-Love-Alain-Botton/dp/0330334360 Essays In Love] " (titled "On Love" in the US) published in 1993, De Botton deals with the process of falling in and out of He didn't, however, receive world-wide recognition until after the publication of his first non-fiction work, "How Proust Can Change Your Life," in 1997. [ [http://www.identitytheory.com/people/birnbaum60.html Author of The Art of Travel talks with Robert Birnbaum] , "identitytheory.com"] The book was based on the life and works of It was followed by " De Botton then returned to a more lyrical, personal style of writing. In "The Art of Travel", he looked at themes in the psychology of travel: how we imagine places before we see them, how we remember beautiful things, what happens to us when we look at deserts, or stay in hotels, or go to the countryside. In " In de Botton's latest book, " In response to a question about whether he felt “pulled” to be a writer he responded: He writes regular columns for several English newspapers, including "The Independent on Sunday". He also travels extensively to lecture on his works. chool of Life De Botton's most recent project is the [http://www.theschooloflife.com/ School of Life] — a new cultural enterprise based in central London offering intelligent instruction on how to lead a fulfilled life. In an interview with metkere.com Alain de Botton [http://metkere.com/en/2008/08/alain-de-botton.html said] : Bibliography * "Essays In Love" (1993) (also known as "On Love: A Novel" (2006)) Filmography TV series * Philosophy: A Guide To Happiness (from " # "Socrates on Self-Confidence" Popular cultural references A fictional In Episode 3 of Series 4, Credit manager The weekly podcast does not, in fact, exist. Reviews "If you had to extract A Good Idea from Alain de Botton, it would be that literature and philosophy can offer ordinary people a richer, more complete understanding of their own experience. This has not been a fashionable line for a long time, which helps to account for the freshness of How Proust Can Change Your Life"—Robert Hanks, The Independent (3 April 2000) "Comforting, but meaningless. In seeking to popularise philosophy, Alain de Botton has merely trivialised it, smoothing the discipline into a series of silly sound bites. ... [De Botton's "The Consolations of Philosophy"] is bad because the conception of philosophy that it promotes is a decadent one, and can only mislead readers as to the true nature of the discipline."—Edward Skidelsky, New Statesman (27 March 2000) [http://www.newstatesman.com/200003270050] "Academic philosophy in the United States has virtually abandoned the attempt to speak to the culture at large, but philosophy professors are doing something of incredible importance: they are trying to get things right. That is the thread that connects them back to Socrates -- even if they are not willing to follow him into the marketplace -- and that is the thread that "The Consolations of Philosophy" cuts. ... [L] et's face it, this isn't philosophy."— "In the culture of the market economy, we miss the fact that philosophy is valuable in and by itself.... It is deeply dispiriting, then, that the latest attempt to popularize philosophy [De Botton's "The Consolations of Philosophy"] - that is to say, to make philosophy into televisual fodder - does so precisely on the basis that philosophers can provide us with useful tips.... This is not the dumbing down of philosophy, it is a dumbing out. Nothing in this travesty deserves its title; Boethius must be turning in his grave."—Mary Margaret McCabe, "Who wants to be a millionaire?", Times Literary Supplement (23 June 2000) "There's an easy charm to de Botton's writing, pleasure to be had in its intellectual order and civilized tidiness."—Melanie McGrath, Evening Standard (13 May 2002) "All de Botton's books, fiction and non-fiction, deal with how thought and specifically philosophy might help us deal better with the challenges of quotidian life—returning philosophy to its simple, sound origins."—Annette Kobak, Times Literary Supplement (31 May 2002) " [De Botton] has produced a meandering, pompous disquisition that betrays an autodidact’s haphazard sense of the field, but with little of the original thinking that might be expected from an outsider. ... The Architecture of Happiness would be an innocuous castoff if not for its proselytizing ambitions (it has so far spawned a PBS miniseries) and a set of rather insidious ideas camouflaged in its twee prose."—Mark Lamster, I.D. Magazine (January / February 2007) "... he's an absolute pair-of-aching-balls of a man - a slapheaded, ruby-lipped pop philosopher who's forged a lucrative career stating the bleeding obvious in a series of poncey, lighter-than-air books aimed at smug Sunday supplement pseuds looking for something clever-looking to read on the plane"— Reviewing " References External links * [http://www.alaindebotton.com Alain de Botton official site] Источник: Alain de Botton"So, I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc. etc. Like many others, my career happened like it did because certain doors opened and certain doors closed. You know, at a certain point I thought it would be great to make film documentaries. Well, in fact, I found that to be incredibly hard and very expensive to do and I didn’t really have the courage to keep battling away at that. In another age, I might have been an academic in a university, if the university system had been different. So, it’s all about trying to find the best fit between your talents and what the world can offer at that point in time." [Nagy, Kim; [http://www.wildriverreview.com/worldvoices-alaindebotton.php "The Art of Connection - A Conversation with Alain de Botton"] , "
The idea is to challenge traditional universities and reorganise knowledge, directing it towards life, and away from knowledge for its own sake. In a modest way, it’s an institution that is trying to give people what universities should I think always give them: a sense of direction and wisdom for their lives with the help of culture.
* "The Romantic Movement" (1994)
* "Kiss and Tell" (1995)
* "How Proust Can Change Your Life" (1997)
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* "The Art of Travel" (2002)
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# "Epicurus on Happiness"
# "Seneca on Anger"
# "Montaigne on Self-Esteem"
# "Schopenhauer on Love"
# "Nietzsche on Hardship"
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* [http://www.theschooloflife.com The School of Life]
* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth16 Profile at Contemporary Writers]
* [http://www.channel4.com/community/showcards/P/Philosophy_-_Alain_de_Botton.html Archived web chat]
* [http://www.3ammagazine.com/otp/2002_oct.html Interview with 3AM Magazine (2002)]
* [http://www.kultureflash.net/archive/48/priview.html KultureFlash Interview (2003)]
* [http://www.erasmuspc.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=76&Itemid=77 Alain de Botton: "Walking down a crowded road as catalyst for fascinating thoughts"]
* [http://boldtype.com/83143 Interview with Alain de Botton on "The Architecture of Happiness"] - Boldtype.com, February 2007
* [http://www.erasmuspc.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=280&Itemid=32 Alain de Botton interview: "The City as a Cure for Loneliness"]
* [http://metkere.com/en/2008/08/alain-de-botton.html Alain de Botton: "I would advise a friend to travel alone"] - metkere.com, August 2008
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1066940/ Alain de Botton] at the
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