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SCHOOL OF LIFE
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HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE How Proust Can Change Your Life The starting point of How Proust Can Change Your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are highly worthwhile, rarely investigates why this is so. How Proust Can Change Your Life takes Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as the basis for Read more HOW TO THINK MORE ABOUT SEX How to Think More about Sex. We don’t think too much about sex; we’re merely thinking about it in the wrong way. So asserts Alain de Botton in this rigorous and supremely honest book designed to help us navigate the intimate and exciting – yet often confusing and difficult – experience that is sex. EXTRACT - ALAIN DE BOTTON Religion for Atheists Extract 1. The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true – in terms of being handed down from heaven to the sound of trumpets and supernaturally governed by prophets and celestial beings. To save time, and at the risk of losing readers painfully early on in thisproject, Read more
EXTRACT - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety Extract 1. The advantages of two thousand years of Western civilization are familiar enough: an extraordinary increase in wealth, in food supply, in scientific knowledge, in consumer goods, in physical security, in life expectancy and economic opportunity. What is perhaps less apparent and more perplexing is the way that such impressive material advances may have gone hand in TIME - ALAIN DE BOTTON How Proust Can Change Your Life: Reviews Julie K.L. Dam in Time, 2 June 1997 Alain de Botton’s delicious new book explains how in the search of a lost time can change our lives Even the most diligent of readers may be excused for falling short of conquering the Mount Everest of 20th century literature, Marcel Proust’s A la Recherchedu Temps Read more
HUMANITAS - ALAIN DE BOTTON How Proust Can Change Your Life Amy Kiernan in Humanitas, Volume XI, No. 1, 1998 “Generations of critics have told us we are not supposed to read novels for what they have to tell us about life,” observes Phyllis Rose. If this is true, if fiction is not supposed to tell us about life, then the contemporary literary world is a Read more TIMES - ALAIN DE BOTTON Religion for Atheists: Reviews Jeanette Winterson in the Times, 4 February 2012 Read at the Times website Alain de Botton is a believer — but not in God. Religion for Atheists begins and ends with the idea that secular society needs its own institutions that give space and support to our inner life. We need systems, structures, rituals, directed reading, Read more TLS - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety: Reviews. Jonathan Ree in the TLS, 14 May 2004. Alain de Botton is a philosopher. But he is also a professional writer, and with the fabulous sales of works like How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy he has taken philosophy to the kind of readers who might otherwise be overdosing on Bridget Jones, Harry Potter, or Men Are from Mars, Women Are SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Status Anxiety: Reviews Zulfikar Abbany in the Sydney Morning Herald, 22 May 2004 Read at the Sydney Morning Herald website In this age when almost everything is in some way “sexed up”, Alain de Botton makes talk of love seem not crass but essential: “Our need for love remains unwavering, no less steady or insistent than it might havebeen Read more
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HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE How Proust Can Change Your Life The starting point of How Proust Can Change Your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are highly worthwhile, rarely investigates why this is so. How Proust Can Change Your Life takes Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as the basis for Read more HOW TO THINK MORE ABOUT SEX How to Think More about Sex. We don’t think too much about sex; we’re merely thinking about it in the wrong way. So asserts Alain de Botton in this rigorous and supremely honest book designed to help us navigate the intimate and exciting – yet often confusing and difficult – experience that is sex. EXTRACT - ALAIN DE BOTTON Religion for Atheists Extract 1. The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true – in terms of being handed down from heaven to the sound of trumpets and supernaturally governed by prophets and celestial beings. To save time, and at the risk of losing readers painfully early on in thisproject, Read more
EXTRACT - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety Extract 1. The advantages of two thousand years of Western civilization are familiar enough: an extraordinary increase in wealth, in food supply, in scientific knowledge, in consumer goods, in physical security, in life expectancy and economic opportunity. What is perhaps less apparent and more perplexing is the way that such impressive material advances may have gone hand in TIME - ALAIN DE BOTTON How Proust Can Change Your Life: Reviews Julie K.L. Dam in Time, 2 June 1997 Alain de Botton’s delicious new book explains how in the search of a lost time can change our lives Even the most diligent of readers may be excused for falling short of conquering the Mount Everest of 20th century literature, Marcel Proust’s A la Recherchedu Temps Read more
HUMANITAS - ALAIN DE BOTTON How Proust Can Change Your Life Amy Kiernan in Humanitas, Volume XI, No. 1, 1998 “Generations of critics have told us we are not supposed to read novels for what they have to tell us about life,” observes Phyllis Rose. If this is true, if fiction is not supposed to tell us about life, then the contemporary literary world is a Read more TIMES - ALAIN DE BOTTON Religion for Atheists: Reviews Jeanette Winterson in the Times, 4 February 2012 Read at the Times website Alain de Botton is a believer — but not in God. Religion for Atheists begins and ends with the idea that secular society needs its own institutions that give space and support to our inner life. We need systems, structures, rituals, directed reading, Read more TLS - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety: Reviews. Jonathan Ree in the TLS, 14 May 2004. Alain de Botton is a philosopher. But he is also a professional writer, and with the fabulous sales of works like How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy he has taken philosophy to the kind of readers who might otherwise be overdosing on Bridget Jones, Harry Potter, or Men Are from Mars, Women Are SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Status Anxiety: Reviews Zulfikar Abbany in the Sydney Morning Herald, 22 May 2004 Read at the Sydney Morning Herald website In this age when almost everything is in some way “sexed up”, Alain de Botton makes talk of love seem not crass but essential: “Our need for love remains unwavering, no less steady or insistent than it might havebeen Read more
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FULL CV - ALAIN DE BOTTON Alain de Botton Alain de Botton was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1969 and now lives in London. He is a writer of essayistic books that have been described as a ‘philosophy of everyday life.’ He’s written on love, travel, architecture and literature. His books have been bestsellers in 30 countries. Alain also started and helps to run a school in London called The School of Read more REVIEWS - ALAIN DE BOTTON Amy Kiernan in Humanitas Volume XI, No. 1, 1998 If you do not have time to read all the volumes of Remembrance of Things Past (or if you cannot fit it on your bookshelves), Alain de Botton’s book, which highlights the best in Proust, is a good alternative. RELIGION FOR ATHEISTS Religion for Atheists. What if religions are neither all true or all nonsense? The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain’s book Religion for Atheists, which argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false – and yet that religions still have some very important things to teach the secular world. HUMANITAS - ALAIN DE BOTTON How Proust Can Change Your Life Amy Kiernan in Humanitas, Volume XI, No. 1, 1998 “Generations of critics have told us we are not supposed to read novels for what they have to tell us about life,” observes Phyllis Rose. If this is true, if fiction is not supposed to tell us about life, then the contemporary literary world is a Read more Q+A - ALAIN DE BOTTON Art as Therapy Q+A You suggest that art can be a therapeutic medium? What do you mean? It is very unfashionable to think that art can ‘do’ anything for us. There is an assumption in our culture that art isn’t ‘for’ anything in particular. It’s just very interesting and important. However, this explanation doesn’t seem focused enough to me. I Read moreLITERARY REVIEW
The Art of Travel: Reviews Sarah Wheeler in the Literary Review, May 2002 This is a provocative book by a young writer who rocketed to fame in 1997 with How Proust Can Change Your Life. Alain de Botton went on to consolidate his reputation as a dashing media egghead de nos jours with his television series The Consolations of Philosophy. The ArtRead more
REVIEWS - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety Reviews Jennifer Levasseur in the Times Picayunne 25 July 2004 It’s a common sight. A lover’s quarrel between a young man and woman – say, at a coffee shop – erupts. The woman screams, shakes her fist, curses, points. She hurls her drink at the man, nearly overturning her chair as she scrambles to make a dramatic exit.Read more
OBSERVER - ALAIN DE BOTTON How Proust Can Change Your Life: Reviews Edmund White in the Observer, 13 April 1997 Everyone has always spoken of Proust as the Great Moralist, but no-one before Botton has had the chutzpah to take the claim literally. For the first time someone has set out to isolate rules of conduct and general principles about Life that can be derivedfrom Read more
TLS - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety: Reviews. Jonathan Ree in the TLS, 14 May 2004. Alain de Botton is a philosopher. But he is also a professional writer, and with the fabulous sales of works like How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy he has taken philosophy to the kind of readers who might otherwise be overdosing on Bridget Jones, Harry Potter, or Men Are from Mars, Women Are HOME - ALAIN DE BOTTONRELIGION FOR ATHEISTSTHE ARCHITECTURE OF HAPPINESSTHE ART OF TRAVELWATCH Leave this field empty if you're human: Privacy Policy | © 2018 | ©2018
THE ARCHITECTURE OF HAPPINESS The Architecture of Happiness One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we’re surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of Happiness starts from the idea that where Read more HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE How Proust Can Change Your Life The starting point of How Proust Can Change Your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are highly worthwhile, rarely investigates why this is so. How Proust Can Change Your Life takes Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as the basis for Read more HOW TO THINK MORE ABOUT SEX How to Think More about Sex. We don’t think too much about sex; we’re merely thinking about it in the wrong way. So asserts Alain de Botton in this rigorous and supremely honest book designed to help us navigate the intimate and exciting – yet often confusing and difficult – experience that is sex.THE ART OF TRAVEL
The Art of Travel is a philosophical look at the ubiquitous but peculiar activity of travelling ‘for pleasure’, with thoughts on airports, landscapes, museums, holiday romances, photographs, exotic carpets and the contents of hotel mini-bars. The book mixes personal thought with insights drawn from some of the great figures of thepast.
RELIGION FOR ATHEISTS Religion for Atheists. What if religions are neither all true or all nonsense? The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain’s book Religion for Atheists, which argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false – and yet that religions still have some very important things to teach the secular world. EXTRACT - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety Extract 1. The advantages of two thousand years of Western civilization are familiar enough: an extraordinary increase in wealth, in food supply, in scientific knowledge, in consumer goods, in physical security, in life expectancy and economic opportunity. What is perhaps less apparent and more perplexing is the way that such impressive material advances may have gone hand in OBSERVER - ALAIN DE BOTTON How Proust Can Change Your Life: Reviews Edmund White in the Observer, 13 April 1997 Everyone has always spoken of Proust as the Great Moralist, but no-one before Botton has had the chutzpah to take the claim literally. For the first time someone has set out to isolate rules of conduct and general principles about Life that can be derivedfrom Read more
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The Consolations of Philosophy: Reviews. Roger Scruton in the Mail on Sunday, 26 March 2000. The title of Alain de Botton’s ride through the clouds is taken from the Roman philosopher Boethius, whose Consolation of Philosophy – not mentioned by de Botton – was a best-seller throughout the Middle Ages, being translated into English by none less than Chaucer. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Status Anxiety: Reviews Zulfikar Abbany in the Sydney Morning Herald, 22 May 2004 Read at the Sydney Morning Herald website In this age when almost everything is in some way “sexed up”, Alain de Botton makes talk of love seem not crass but essential: “Our need for love remains unwavering, no less steady or insistent than it might havebeen Read more
HOME - ALAIN DE BOTTONRELIGION FOR ATHEISTSTHE ARCHITECTURE OF HAPPINESSTHE ART OF TRAVELWATCH Leave this field empty if you're human: Privacy Policy | © 2018 | ©2018
THE ARCHITECTURE OF HAPPINESS The Architecture of Happiness One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we’re surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of Happiness starts from the idea that where Read more HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE How Proust Can Change Your Life The starting point of How Proust Can Change Your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are highly worthwhile, rarely investigates why this is so. How Proust Can Change Your Life takes Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as the basis for Read more HOW TO THINK MORE ABOUT SEX How to Think More about Sex. We don’t think too much about sex; we’re merely thinking about it in the wrong way. So asserts Alain de Botton in this rigorous and supremely honest book designed to help us navigate the intimate and exciting – yet often confusing and difficult – experience that is sex.THE ART OF TRAVEL
The Art of Travel is a philosophical look at the ubiquitous but peculiar activity of travelling ‘for pleasure’, with thoughts on airports, landscapes, museums, holiday romances, photographs, exotic carpets and the contents of hotel mini-bars. The book mixes personal thought with insights drawn from some of the great figures of thepast.
RELIGION FOR ATHEISTS Religion for Atheists. What if religions are neither all true or all nonsense? The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain’s book Religion for Atheists, which argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false – and yet that religions still have some very important things to teach the secular world. EXTRACT - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety Extract 1. The advantages of two thousand years of Western civilization are familiar enough: an extraordinary increase in wealth, in food supply, in scientific knowledge, in consumer goods, in physical security, in life expectancy and economic opportunity. What is perhaps less apparent and more perplexing is the way that such impressive material advances may have gone hand in OBSERVER - ALAIN DE BOTTON How Proust Can Change Your Life: Reviews Edmund White in the Observer, 13 April 1997 Everyone has always spoken of Proust as the Great Moralist, but no-one before Botton has had the chutzpah to take the claim literally. For the first time someone has set out to isolate rules of conduct and general principles about Life that can be derivedfrom Read more
MAIL ON SUNDAY
The Consolations of Philosophy: Reviews. Roger Scruton in the Mail on Sunday, 26 March 2000. The title of Alain de Botton’s ride through the clouds is taken from the Roman philosopher Boethius, whose Consolation of Philosophy – not mentioned by de Botton – was a best-seller throughout the Middle Ages, being translated into English by none less than Chaucer. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Status Anxiety: Reviews Zulfikar Abbany in the Sydney Morning Herald, 22 May 2004 Read at the Sydney Morning Herald website In this age when almost everything is in some way “sexed up”, Alain de Botton makes talk of love seem not crass but essential: “Our need for love remains unwavering, no less steady or insistent than it might havebeen Read more
ART AS THERAPY
Art as Therapy There is widespread agreement that art is ‘very important’ – but it can be remarkably hard to say quite why. Yet if art is to enjoy its privileges, it has to be able to demonstrate its relevance in understandable ways to the widest possible audience. Alain de Botton and John Armstrong have a firm belief that art Readmore
STATUS ANXIETY
Status Anxiety This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us; about whether we’re judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser. This is a book about status anxiety. We care about our status for a simple reason: because most people tend to be Read more EXTRACT - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety Extract 1. The advantages of two thousand years of Western civilization are familiar enough: an extraordinary increase in wealth, in food supply, in scientific knowledge, in consumer goods, in physical security, in life expectancy and economic opportunity. What is perhaps less apparent and more perplexing is the way that such impressive material advances may have gone hand inTHE COURSE OF LOVE
The Course of Love In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married. They have children. Society tells us this is the end of the story. In fact, it is only the beginning. The long-awaited and beguiling sequel to Essays in Love, The Course of Love charts the complex and intricate course of a long-term relationship. Read more EXTRACT - ALAIN DE BOTTON Religion for Atheists Extract 1. The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true – in terms of being handed down from heaven to the sound of trumpets and supernaturally governed by prophets and celestial beings. To save time, and at the risk of losing readers painfully early on in thisproject, Read more
OBSERVER - ALAIN DE BOTTON How Proust Can Change Your Life: Reviews Edmund White in the Observer, 13 April 1997 Everyone has always spoken of Proust as the Great Moralist, but no-one before Botton has had the chutzpah to take the claim literally. For the first time someone has set out to isolate rules of conduct and general principles about Life that can be derivedfrom Read more
HUMANITAS - ALAIN DE BOTTON How Proust Can Change Your Life Amy Kiernan in Humanitas, Volume XI, No. 1, 1998 “Generations of critics have told us we are not supposed to read novels for what they have to tell us about life,” observes Phyllis Rose. If this is true, if fiction is not supposed to tell us about life, then the contemporary literary world is a Read moreMAIL ON SUNDAY
The Consolations of Philosophy: Reviews. Roger Scruton in the Mail on Sunday, 26 March 2000. The title of Alain de Botton’s ride through the clouds is taken from the Roman philosopher Boethius, whose Consolation of Philosophy – not mentioned by de Botton – was a best-seller throughout the Middle Ages, being translated into English by none less than Chaucer. TIMES - ALAIN DE BOTTON Religion for Atheists: Reviews Jeanette Winterson in the Times, 4 February 2012 Read at the Times website Alain de Botton is a believer — but not in God. Religion for Atheists begins and ends with the idea that secular society needs its own institutions that give space and support to our inner life. We need systems, structures, rituals, directed reading, Read more TLS - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety: Reviews. Jonathan Ree in the TLS, 14 May 2004. Alain de Botton is a philosopher. But he is also a professional writer, and with the fabulous sales of works like How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy he has taken philosophy to the kind of readers who might otherwise be overdosing on Bridget Jones, Harry Potter, or Men Are from Mars, Women Are HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE How Proust Can Change Your Life The starting point of How Proust Can Change Your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are highly worthwhile, rarely investigates why this is so. How Proust Can Change Your Life takes Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as the basis for Read more EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE The School of Life EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE Emotional intelligence remains a peculiar-sounding term, because we are wedded to thinking of intelligence as a unitary capacity, rather than what it actually is: a catchall word for what is in fact a range of skills directed at a number of different challenges. There is mathematical intelligence and culinary intelligence, intelligence around HOW TO THINK MORE ABOUT SEX How to Think More about Sex. We don’t think too much about sex; we’re merely thinking about it in the wrong way. So asserts Alain de Botton in this rigorous and supremely honest book designed to help us navigate the intimate and exciting – yet often confusing and difficult – experience that is sex. EXTRACT - ALAIN DE BOTTON Religion for Atheists Extract 1. The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true – in terms of being handed down from heaven to the sound of trumpets and supernaturally governed by prophets and celestial beings. To save time, and at the risk of losing readers painfully early on in thisproject, Read more
EXTRACT - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety Extract 1. The advantages of two thousand years of Western civilization are familiar enough: an extraordinary increase in wealth, in food supply, in scientific knowledge, in consumer goods, in physical security, in life expectancy and economic opportunity. What is perhaps less apparent and more perplexing is the way that such impressive material advances may have gone hand in HUMANITAS - ALAIN DE BOTTON How Proust Can Change Your Life Amy Kiernan in Humanitas, Volume XI, No. 1, 1998 “Generations of critics have told us we are not supposed to read novels for what they have to tell us about life,” observes Phyllis Rose. If this is true, if fiction is not supposed to tell us about life, then the contemporary literary world is a Read more TIMES - ALAIN DE BOTTON Religion for Atheists: Reviews Jeanette Winterson in the Times, 4 February 2012 Read at the Times website Alain de Botton is a believer — but not in God. Religion for Atheists begins and ends with the idea that secular society needs its own institutions that give space and support to our inner life. We need systems, structures, rituals, directed reading, Read moreMAIL ON SUNDAY
The Consolations of Philosophy: Reviews. Roger Scruton in the Mail on Sunday, 26 March 2000. The title of Alain de Botton’s ride through the clouds is taken from the Roman philosopher Boethius, whose Consolation of Philosophy – not mentioned by de Botton – was a best-seller throughout the Middle Ages, being translated into English by none less than Chaucer. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Status Anxiety: Reviews Zulfikar Abbany in the Sydney Morning Herald, 22 May 2004 Read at the Sydney Morning Herald website In this age when almost everything is in some way “sexed up”, Alain de Botton makes talk of love seem not crass but essential: “Our need for love remains unwavering, no less steady or insistent than it might havebeen Read more
TLS - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety: Reviews. Jonathan Ree in the TLS, 14 May 2004. Alain de Botton is a philosopher. But he is also a professional writer, and with the fabulous sales of works like How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy he has taken philosophy to the kind of readers who might otherwise be overdosing on Bridget Jones, Harry Potter, or Men Are from Mars, Women Are HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE How Proust Can Change Your Life The starting point of How Proust Can Change Your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are highly worthwhile, rarely investigates why this is so. How Proust Can Change Your Life takes Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as the basis for Read more EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE The School of Life EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE Emotional intelligence remains a peculiar-sounding term, because we are wedded to thinking of intelligence as a unitary capacity, rather than what it actually is: a catchall word for what is in fact a range of skills directed at a number of different challenges. There is mathematical intelligence and culinary intelligence, intelligence around HOW TO THINK MORE ABOUT SEX How to Think More about Sex. We don’t think too much about sex; we’re merely thinking about it in the wrong way. So asserts Alain de Botton in this rigorous and supremely honest book designed to help us navigate the intimate and exciting – yet often confusing and difficult – experience that is sex. EXTRACT - ALAIN DE BOTTON Religion for Atheists Extract 1. The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true – in terms of being handed down from heaven to the sound of trumpets and supernaturally governed by prophets and celestial beings. To save time, and at the risk of losing readers painfully early on in thisproject, Read more
EXTRACT - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety Extract 1. The advantages of two thousand years of Western civilization are familiar enough: an extraordinary increase in wealth, in food supply, in scientific knowledge, in consumer goods, in physical security, in life expectancy and economic opportunity. What is perhaps less apparent and more perplexing is the way that such impressive material advances may have gone hand in HUMANITAS - ALAIN DE BOTTON How Proust Can Change Your Life Amy Kiernan in Humanitas, Volume XI, No. 1, 1998 “Generations of critics have told us we are not supposed to read novels for what they have to tell us about life,” observes Phyllis Rose. If this is true, if fiction is not supposed to tell us about life, then the contemporary literary world is a Read more TIMES - ALAIN DE BOTTON Religion for Atheists: Reviews Jeanette Winterson in the Times, 4 February 2012 Read at the Times website Alain de Botton is a believer — but not in God. Religion for Atheists begins and ends with the idea that secular society needs its own institutions that give space and support to our inner life. We need systems, structures, rituals, directed reading, Read moreMAIL ON SUNDAY
The Consolations of Philosophy: Reviews. Roger Scruton in the Mail on Sunday, 26 March 2000. The title of Alain de Botton’s ride through the clouds is taken from the Roman philosopher Boethius, whose Consolation of Philosophy – not mentioned by de Botton – was a best-seller throughout the Middle Ages, being translated into English by none less than Chaucer. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Status Anxiety: Reviews Zulfikar Abbany in the Sydney Morning Herald, 22 May 2004 Read at the Sydney Morning Herald website In this age when almost everything is in some way “sexed up”, Alain de Botton makes talk of love seem not crass but essential: “Our need for love remains unwavering, no less steady or insistent than it might havebeen Read more
TLS - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety: Reviews. Jonathan Ree in the TLS, 14 May 2004. Alain de Botton is a philosopher. But he is also a professional writer, and with the fabulous sales of works like How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy he has taken philosophy to the kind of readers who might otherwise be overdosing on Bridget Jones, Harry Potter, or Men Are from Mars, Women Are HOME - ALAIN DE BOTTON Leave this field empty if you're human: Privacy Policy | © 2018 | ©2018
FULL CV - ALAIN DE BOTTON Alain de Botton Alain de Botton was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1969 and now lives in London. He is a writer of essayistic books that have been described as a ‘philosophy of everyday life.’ He’s written on love, travel, architecture and literature. His books have been bestsellers in 30 countries. Alain also started and helps to run a school in London called The School of Read more WATCH - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety Watch The book Status Anxiety was turned was turned into a documentary film of the same name. Status Anxiety (full programme) Tabloids (clip) Schopenhauer (clip) Marcus Aurelius (clip)PRESS PHOTO ARCHIVE
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The Consolations of Philosophy: Reviews. Roger Scruton in the Mail on Sunday, 26 March 2000. The title of Alain de Botton’s ride through the clouds is taken from the Roman philosopher Boethius, whose Consolation of Philosophy – not mentioned by de Botton – was a best-seller throughout the Middle Ages, being translated into English by none less than Chaucer. HUMANITAS - ALAIN DE BOTTON How Proust Can Change Your Life Amy Kiernan in Humanitas, Volume XI, No. 1, 1998 “Generations of critics have told us we are not supposed to read novels for what they have to tell us about life,” observes Phyllis Rose. If this is true, if fiction is not supposed to tell us about life, then the contemporary literary world is a Read moreLITERARY REVIEW
The Art of Travel: Reviews Sarah Wheeler in the Literary Review, May 2002 This is a provocative book by a young writer who rocketed to fame in 1997 with How Proust Can Change Your Life. Alain de Botton went on to consolidate his reputation as a dashing media egghead de nos jours with his television series The Consolations of Philosophy. The ArtRead more
REVIEWS - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety Reviews Jennifer Levasseur in the Times Picayunne 25 July 2004 It’s a common sight. A lover’s quarrel between a young man and woman – say, at a coffee shop – erupts. The woman screams, shakes her fist, curses, points. She hurls her drink at the man, nearly overturning her chair as she scrambles to make a dramatic exit.Read more
TLS - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety: Reviews. Jonathan Ree in the TLS, 14 May 2004. Alain de Botton is a philosopher. But he is also a professional writer, and with the fabulous sales of works like How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy he has taken philosophy to the kind of readers who might otherwise be overdosing on Bridget Jones, Harry Potter, or Men Are from Mars, Women Are HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE How Proust Can Change Your Life The starting point of How Proust Can Change Your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are highly worthwhile, rarely investigates why this is so. How Proust Can Change Your Life takes Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as the basis for Read more EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE The School of Life EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE Emotional intelligence remains a peculiar-sounding term, because we are wedded to thinking of intelligence as a unitary capacity, rather than what it actually is: a catchall word for what is in fact a range of skills directed at a number of different challenges. There is mathematical intelligence and culinary intelligence, intelligence around HOW TO THINK MORE ABOUT SEX How to Think More about Sex. We don’t think too much about sex; we’re merely thinking about it in the wrong way. So asserts Alain de Botton in this rigorous and supremely honest book designed to help us navigate the intimate and exciting – yet often confusing and difficult – experience that is sex. EXTRACT - ALAIN DE BOTTON Religion for Atheists Extract 1. The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true – in terms of being handed down from heaven to the sound of trumpets and supernaturally governed by prophets and celestial beings. To save time, and at the risk of losing readers painfully early on in thisproject, Read more
EXTRACT - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety Extract 1. The advantages of two thousand years of Western civilization are familiar enough: an extraordinary increase in wealth, in food supply, in scientific knowledge, in consumer goods, in physical security, in life expectancy and economic opportunity. What is perhaps less apparent and more perplexing is the way that such impressive material advances may have gone hand in HUMANITAS - ALAIN DE BOTTON How Proust Can Change Your Life Amy Kiernan in Humanitas, Volume XI, No. 1, 1998 “Generations of critics have told us we are not supposed to read novels for what they have to tell us about life,” observes Phyllis Rose. If this is true, if fiction is not supposed to tell us about life, then the contemporary literary world is a Read more TIMES - ALAIN DE BOTTON Religion for Atheists: Reviews Jeanette Winterson in the Times, 4 February 2012 Read at the Times website Alain de Botton is a believer — but not in God. Religion for Atheists begins and ends with the idea that secular society needs its own institutions that give space and support to our inner life. We need systems, structures, rituals, directed reading, Read moreMAIL ON SUNDAY
The Consolations of Philosophy: Reviews. Roger Scruton in the Mail on Sunday, 26 March 2000. The title of Alain de Botton’s ride through the clouds is taken from the Roman philosopher Boethius, whose Consolation of Philosophy – not mentioned by de Botton – was a best-seller throughout the Middle Ages, being translated into English by none less than Chaucer. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Status Anxiety: Reviews Zulfikar Abbany in the Sydney Morning Herald, 22 May 2004 Read at the Sydney Morning Herald website In this age when almost everything is in some way “sexed up”, Alain de Botton makes talk of love seem not crass but essential: “Our need for love remains unwavering, no less steady or insistent than it might havebeen Read more
TLS - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety: Reviews. Jonathan Ree in the TLS, 14 May 2004. Alain de Botton is a philosopher. But he is also a professional writer, and with the fabulous sales of works like How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy he has taken philosophy to the kind of readers who might otherwise be overdosing on Bridget Jones, Harry Potter, or Men Are from Mars, Women Are HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE How Proust Can Change Your Life The starting point of How Proust Can Change Your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are highly worthwhile, rarely investigates why this is so. How Proust Can Change Your Life takes Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as the basis for Read more EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE The School of Life EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE Emotional intelligence remains a peculiar-sounding term, because we are wedded to thinking of intelligence as a unitary capacity, rather than what it actually is: a catchall word for what is in fact a range of skills directed at a number of different challenges. There is mathematical intelligence and culinary intelligence, intelligence around HOW TO THINK MORE ABOUT SEX How to Think More about Sex. We don’t think too much about sex; we’re merely thinking about it in the wrong way. So asserts Alain de Botton in this rigorous and supremely honest book designed to help us navigate the intimate and exciting – yet often confusing and difficult – experience that is sex. EXTRACT - ALAIN DE BOTTON Religion for Atheists Extract 1. The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true – in terms of being handed down from heaven to the sound of trumpets and supernaturally governed by prophets and celestial beings. To save time, and at the risk of losing readers painfully early on in thisproject, Read more
EXTRACT - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety Extract 1. The advantages of two thousand years of Western civilization are familiar enough: an extraordinary increase in wealth, in food supply, in scientific knowledge, in consumer goods, in physical security, in life expectancy and economic opportunity. What is perhaps less apparent and more perplexing is the way that such impressive material advances may have gone hand in HUMANITAS - ALAIN DE BOTTON How Proust Can Change Your Life Amy Kiernan in Humanitas, Volume XI, No. 1, 1998 “Generations of critics have told us we are not supposed to read novels for what they have to tell us about life,” observes Phyllis Rose. If this is true, if fiction is not supposed to tell us about life, then the contemporary literary world is a Read more TIMES - ALAIN DE BOTTON Religion for Atheists: Reviews Jeanette Winterson in the Times, 4 February 2012 Read at the Times website Alain de Botton is a believer — but not in God. Religion for Atheists begins and ends with the idea that secular society needs its own institutions that give space and support to our inner life. We need systems, structures, rituals, directed reading, Read moreMAIL ON SUNDAY
The Consolations of Philosophy: Reviews. Roger Scruton in the Mail on Sunday, 26 March 2000. The title of Alain de Botton’s ride through the clouds is taken from the Roman philosopher Boethius, whose Consolation of Philosophy – not mentioned by de Botton – was a best-seller throughout the Middle Ages, being translated into English by none less than Chaucer. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Status Anxiety: Reviews Zulfikar Abbany in the Sydney Morning Herald, 22 May 2004 Read at the Sydney Morning Herald website In this age when almost everything is in some way “sexed up”, Alain de Botton makes talk of love seem not crass but essential: “Our need for love remains unwavering, no less steady or insistent than it might havebeen Read more
TLS - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety: Reviews. Jonathan Ree in the TLS, 14 May 2004. Alain de Botton is a philosopher. But he is also a professional writer, and with the fabulous sales of works like How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy he has taken philosophy to the kind of readers who might otherwise be overdosing on Bridget Jones, Harry Potter, or Men Are from Mars, Women Are HOME - ALAIN DE BOTTON Leave this field empty if you're human: Privacy Policy | © 2018 | ©2018
FULL CV - ALAIN DE BOTTON Alain de Botton Alain de Botton was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1969 and now lives in London. He is a writer of essayistic books that have been described as a ‘philosophy of everyday life.’ He’s written on love, travel, architecture and literature. His books have been bestsellers in 30 countries. Alain also started and helps to run a school in London called The School of Read more WATCH - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety Watch The book Status Anxiety was turned was turned into a documentary film of the same name. Status Anxiety (full programme) Tabloids (clip) Schopenhauer (clip) Marcus Aurelius (clip)PRESS PHOTO ARCHIVE
Press photo archive Photos of Alain de Botton for media use. Photographs by Rosie Hardy Free pictures to download Click to download high-res photographs (.ZIP) Photographs by The School of Life Seoul Free pictures to download Click to download high-res photographs (.ZIP) Photographs by Mathias Marx Free pictures to download Click to download high-res photographs (.ZIP) Photographs by Vincent REVIEWS - ALAIN DE BOTTON How Proust Can Change Your Life Reviews Alison Lurie in the New York Review of Books 15 March 2007 In the last decade he has considered—in books whose brevity and informal tone disguise the occasional gravity of their content—travel, love, literature, philosophy, and the value of reading. His best-known work, How Proust Can Change Your Life, is accurately described on Read moreMAIL ON SUNDAY
The Consolations of Philosophy: Reviews. Roger Scruton in the Mail on Sunday, 26 March 2000. The title of Alain de Botton’s ride through the clouds is taken from the Roman philosopher Boethius, whose Consolation of Philosophy – not mentioned by de Botton – was a best-seller throughout the Middle Ages, being translated into English by none less than Chaucer. HUMANITAS - ALAIN DE BOTTON How Proust Can Change Your Life Amy Kiernan in Humanitas, Volume XI, No. 1, 1998 “Generations of critics have told us we are not supposed to read novels for what they have to tell us about life,” observes Phyllis Rose. If this is true, if fiction is not supposed to tell us about life, then the contemporary literary world is a Read moreLITERARY REVIEW
The Art of Travel: Reviews Sarah Wheeler in the Literary Review, May 2002 This is a provocative book by a young writer who rocketed to fame in 1997 with How Proust Can Change Your Life. Alain de Botton went on to consolidate his reputation as a dashing media egghead de nos jours with his television series The Consolations of Philosophy. The ArtRead more
REVIEWS - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety Reviews Jennifer Levasseur in the Times Picayunne 25 July 2004 It’s a common sight. A lover’s quarrel between a young man and woman – say, at a coffee shop – erupts. The woman screams, shakes her fist, curses, points. She hurls her drink at the man, nearly overturning her chair as she scrambles to make a dramatic exit.Read more
TLS - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety: Reviews. Jonathan Ree in the TLS, 14 May 2004. Alain de Botton is a philosopher. But he is also a professional writer, and with the fabulous sales of works like How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy he has taken philosophy to the kind of readers who might otherwise be overdosing on Bridget Jones, Harry Potter, or Men Are from Mars, Women Are HOME - ALAIN DE BOTTONRELIGION FOR ATHEISTSTHE ARCHITECTURE OF HAPPINESSTHE ART OF TRAVELWATCH Leave this field empty if you're human: Privacy Policy | © 2018 | ©2018
HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE How Proust Can Change Your Life The starting point of How Proust Can Change Your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are highly worthwhile, rarely investigates why this is so. How Proust Can Change Your Life takes Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as the basis for Read more THE ARCHITECTURE OF HAPPINESS The Architecture of Happiness One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we’re surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of Happiness starts from the idea that where Read more EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE The School of Life EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE Emotional intelligence remains a peculiar-sounding term, because we are wedded to thinking of intelligence as a unitary capacity, rather than what it actually is: a catchall word for what is in fact a range of skills directed at a number of different challenges. There is mathematical intelligence and culinary intelligence, intelligence around RELIGION FOR ATHEISTS Religion for Atheists. What if religions are neither all true or all nonsense? The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain’s book Religion for Atheists, which argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false – and yet that religions still have some very important things to teach the secular world. HOW TO THINK MORE ABOUT SEX How to Think More about Sex. We don’t think too much about sex; we’re merely thinking about it in the wrong way. So asserts Alain de Botton in this rigorous and supremely honest book designed to help us navigate the intimate and exciting – yet often confusing and difficult – experience that is sex.MAIL ON SUNDAY
The Consolations of Philosophy: Reviews. Roger Scruton in the Mail on Sunday, 26 March 2000. The title of Alain de Botton’s ride through the clouds is taken from the Roman philosopher Boethius, whose Consolation of Philosophy – not mentioned by de Botton – was a best-seller throughout the Middle Ages, being translated into English by none less than Chaucer. TIMES - ALAIN DE BOTTONALAIN DE BOTTON ATHEISMALAIN DE BOTTON PDFALLANDE BUTTON
Religion for Atheists: Reviews Jeanette Winterson in the Times, 4 February 2012 Read at the Times website Alain de Botton is a believer — but not in God. Religion for Atheists begins and ends with the idea that secular society needs its own institutions that give space and support to our inner life. We need systems, structures, rituals, directed reading, Read more SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Status Anxiety: Reviews Zulfikar Abbany in the Sydney Morning Herald, 22 May 2004 Read at the Sydney Morning Herald website In this age when almost everything is in some way “sexed up”, Alain de Botton makes talk of love seem not crass but essential: “Our need for love remains unwavering, no less steady or insistent than it might havebeen Read more
TLS - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety: Reviews. Jonathan Ree in the TLS, 14 May 2004. Alain de Botton is a philosopher. But he is also a professional writer, and with the fabulous sales of works like How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy he has taken philosophy to the kind of readers who might otherwise be overdosing on Bridget Jones, Harry Potter, or Men Are from Mars, Women Are HOME - ALAIN DE BOTTONRELIGION FOR ATHEISTSTHE ARCHITECTURE OF HAPPINESSTHE ART OF TRAVELWATCH Leave this field empty if you're human: Privacy Policy | © 2018 | ©2018
HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE How Proust Can Change Your Life The starting point of How Proust Can Change Your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are highly worthwhile, rarely investigates why this is so. How Proust Can Change Your Life takes Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as the basis for Read more THE ARCHITECTURE OF HAPPINESS The Architecture of Happiness One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we’re surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of Happiness starts from the idea that where Read more EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE The School of Life EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE Emotional intelligence remains a peculiar-sounding term, because we are wedded to thinking of intelligence as a unitary capacity, rather than what it actually is: a catchall word for what is in fact a range of skills directed at a number of different challenges. There is mathematical intelligence and culinary intelligence, intelligence around RELIGION FOR ATHEISTS Religion for Atheists. What if religions are neither all true or all nonsense? The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain’s book Religion for Atheists, which argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false – and yet that religions still have some very important things to teach the secular world. HOW TO THINK MORE ABOUT SEX How to Think More about Sex. We don’t think too much about sex; we’re merely thinking about it in the wrong way. So asserts Alain de Botton in this rigorous and supremely honest book designed to help us navigate the intimate and exciting – yet often confusing and difficult – experience that is sex.MAIL ON SUNDAY
The Consolations of Philosophy: Reviews. Roger Scruton in the Mail on Sunday, 26 March 2000. The title of Alain de Botton’s ride through the clouds is taken from the Roman philosopher Boethius, whose Consolation of Philosophy – not mentioned by de Botton – was a best-seller throughout the Middle Ages, being translated into English by none less than Chaucer. TIMES - ALAIN DE BOTTONALAIN DE BOTTON ATHEISMALAIN DE BOTTON PDFALLANDE BUTTON
Religion for Atheists: Reviews Jeanette Winterson in the Times, 4 February 2012 Read at the Times website Alain de Botton is a believer — but not in God. Religion for Atheists begins and ends with the idea that secular society needs its own institutions that give space and support to our inner life. We need systems, structures, rituals, directed reading, Read more SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Status Anxiety: Reviews Zulfikar Abbany in the Sydney Morning Herald, 22 May 2004 Read at the Sydney Morning Herald website In this age when almost everything is in some way “sexed up”, Alain de Botton makes talk of love seem not crass but essential: “Our need for love remains unwavering, no less steady or insistent than it might havebeen Read more
TLS - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety: Reviews. Jonathan Ree in the TLS, 14 May 2004. Alain de Botton is a philosopher. But he is also a professional writer, and with the fabulous sales of works like How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy he has taken philosophy to the kind of readers who might otherwise be overdosing on Bridget Jones, Harry Potter, or Men Are from Mars, Women AreSCHOOL OF LIFE
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ART AS THERAPY
Art as Therapy There is widespread agreement that art is ‘very important’ – but it can be remarkably hard to say quite why. Yet if art is to enjoy its privileges, it has to be able to demonstrate its relevance in understandable ways to the widest possible audience. Alain de Botton and John Armstrong have a firm belief that art Readmore
THE ART OF TRAVEL
The Art of Travel is a philosophical look at the ubiquitous but peculiar activity of travelling ‘for pleasure’, with thoughts on airports, landscapes, museums, holiday romances, photographs, exotic carpets and the contents of hotel mini-bars. The book mixes personal thought with insights drawn from some of the great figures of thepast.
HOW TO THINK MORE ABOUT SEX How to Think More about Sex. We don’t think too much about sex; we’re merely thinking about it in the wrong way. So asserts Alain de Botton in this rigorous and supremely honest book designed to help us navigate the intimate and exciting – yet often confusing and difficult – experience that is sex.STATUS ANXIETY
Status Anxiety This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us; about whether we’re judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser. This is a book about status anxiety. We care about our status for a simple reason: because most people tend to be Read more EXTRACT - ALAIN DE BOTTON Status Anxiety Extract 1. The advantages of two thousand years of Western civilization are familiar enough: an extraordinary increase in wealth, in food supply, in scientific knowledge, in consumer goods, in physical security, in life expectancy and economic opportunity. What is perhaps less apparent and more perplexing is the way that such impressive material advances may have gone hand in EXTRACT - ALAIN DE BOTTON Religion for Atheists Extract 1. The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true – in terms of being handed down from heaven to the sound of trumpets and supernaturally governed by prophets and celestial beings. To save time, and at the risk of losing readers painfully early on in thisproject, Read more
THE COURSE OF LOVE
The Course of Love In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married. They have children. Society tells us this is the end of the story. In fact, it is only the beginning. The long-awaited and beguiling sequel to Essays in Love, The Course of Love charts the complex and intricate course of a long-term relationship. Read moreINDEPENDENT
He is unusual, among writers, in not having to worry about working at all. His father, Gilbert de Botton, moved to Switzerland from Egypt as head of Rothschild Bank, and then founded Global Asset Management in 1983. He sold it in 1999 for £420m, leaving young Alain (who turns 40 HUMANITAS - ALAIN DE BOTTON How Proust Can Change Your Life Amy Kiernan in Humanitas, Volume XI, No. 1, 1998 “Generations of critics have told us we are not supposed to read novels for what they have to tell us about life,” observes Phyllis Rose. If this is true, if fiction is not supposed to tell us about life, then the contemporary literary world is a Read moreALAIN DE BOTTON
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