Ideas to Save Your Life: Philosophy for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure

Author:   Michael McGirr
Publisher:   Text Publishing
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9781922458919


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   15 June 2022
Format:   Paperback
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This book is about the quest for order in a perplexing world. Ideas to Save Your Life explores the wisdom of more than twenty eminent thinkers across history, from Pythagoras to the contemporary Australian philosopher Frank Jackson; from Mungo Woman to Martha Nussbaum, by way of Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch. It ranges widely across subjects to ask: from where do we draw a sense of life’s purpose? And how can philosophy make life better? Michael McGirr’s approach is warm and personal. Ideas to Save Your Life is often funny, but it is always serious about the task of philosophy. It makes the impenetrable accessible, the indescribable palpable, and invites you to change how you see the world.

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Author:   Michael McGirr
Publisher:   Text Publishing
Imprint:   The Text Publishing Company
ISBN:  

9781922458919


ISBN 10:   1922458910
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   15 June 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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'Michael McGirr is a bit of a twenty-first century alchemist with words: nothing is too deep to be made understandable, his aim is consolation and kindness always, and the result is often magic.' * Geraldine Doogue * 'His anecdotes will make you laugh out loud. If you haven't read any books by him before, seek them out.' -- Good Reading Magazine 'A wonderful excursion through a host of ideas and thinkers.' * Meredith Lake, ABC RN Soul Search * 'A tonic...A book to unscramble your brain and help refresh your perspective.' * Happy Mag * 'A lively, often comic, narrative combined with a romp through some of the key ideas of ancient philosophy...What McGirr draws from the well of philosophy serves his purpose as a storyteller and a critic of society, and he leads us from the personal to the philosophical in an entertaining and often insightful way.' * Janna Thompson, Australian Book Review * 'A bracing romp...Definitely add it to the Christmas list.' * Fullers Weekly * 'McGirr's survey of more than twenty major philosophers, including Socrates, Montaigne, William James, Simone Weil and Mary Midgley, is very much about which of their ideas retains authentic traction in a vocational life dedicated to making the world a more just and humane place...[This is an] erudite yet chatty collection of essays...New lights turned on for me as I read Ideas to Save Your Life. I'm thankful for the laughs too.' * Gregory Day, Age *


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Michael McGirr is the bestselling author of Books that Saved My Life, Snooze, Bypass and Things You Get for Free. He has reviewed almost one thousand books, his short fiction has appeared in publications in Australia and overseas, and he has been publisher of Eureka Street and fiction editor of Meanjin. He works in international aid and development for a large NGO, and lives in Melbourne with his wife, Jenny, and their three teenage children.

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