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Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons from the Champions of Everyday Life by Michael Foley
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
It has always been difficult to appreciate everyday life, often devalued as dreary, banal and burdensome, and never more so than in a culture besotted with fantasy, celebrity and glamour. Yet many writers, artists, film-makers and photographers have celebrated the ordinary life around them, and many phi ...Show more
Life Lessons from Bergson - The School of Life by Michael Foley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\School of Life Ser.
'The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday Henri Bergson was a French professor and philosopher. Born in Paris in 1859 to a Polish composer and Yorkshire woman of Irish descent, his revelatory ideas of life as ceaseless becoming a ...Show more
The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes it Hard to be Happy by Michael Foley
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Category: Words & Ideas
The good news is that the great thinkers from history have proposed the same strategies for happiness and fulfilment. The bad news is that these turn out to be the very things most discouraged by contemporary culture. This knotty dilemma is the subject of The Age of Absurdity - a wry and accessible inve ...Show more
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