Breakfast with Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith

This charming book wears its erudition with ease and suggests that despite what Socrates says, it is in fact the unexamined day that is not worth living. While occasionally skirting into shallow discussions of some philosophers, the author maintains the central conceit of describing a typical day with admirable resourcefulness. He is a founding editor of the award-winning journal, Angelaki, to which he has contributed articles and sits both on the editorial board and that of its associated book series, Angelaki Humanities. He lectured internationally on philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis. Smith is a faculty member at The School of Life, where he runs a breakfast Club, teaches courses on Love and Family and practices constellations. He's at his best teasing out the little idiosyncrasies of modern experience, where simply washing your face in the morning betrays a remarkable optimism for the day ahead and fighting with your partner once in a while might actually be a good idea. Robert Rowland Smith began his career as a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Journalist Rowland Smith does a fair job of concisely explaining big ideas, and he offers a surprisingly colorful cast of thinkers from Carl Schmitt to Michel Foucault. OL15543496W Page_number_confidence 43.98 Pages 218 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201125110041 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 469 Scandate 20201123114121 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781846682377 Tts_version 4.Modeled on the pop philosopher Alain de Botton's trademark blend of everyday observation and intellectual sophistication, this lively jaunt through the course of a day treats readers to such disquisitions as Thomas Hobbes on rush-hour traffic, Jacques Lacan on shopping, and Friedrich Nietzsche on work. Urn:lcp:breakfastwithsoc0000smit:epub:7442a86c-6854-4455-beb8-9104c9c74610 Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier breakfastwithsoc0000smit Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5w76609r Invoice 2089 Isbn 9781846682377ĩ781847652089 Lccn 2010502916 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9350 Ocr_module_version 0.0.7 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19891 Openlibrary_edition Breakfast With Socrates is an attempt to illuminate daily life by means of philosophy and philosophy by means of daily life. The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker Best Philosophy Books for Productivity 26. The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir 25. Robert Rowland Smith is the author of six books, including Breakfast with Socrates and The Reality Test. Urn:lcp:breakfastwithsoc0000smit:lcpdf:bc98dcb5-e4c5-4af8-9181-aca09117a435 Breakfast With Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith Best Philosophy Books About Ethics & Morality 22.

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Breakfast with Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith