Stand Firm – Resisting the Self-Improvement Craze
Stoicism has become quite popular recently, and in this book Danish philosopher and psychologist uses this background to take aim at the self-help industry as…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy Spirituality
Get Over Yourself – Nietzsche for our Times
As the subtitle indicates, this book is not just another introduction to Nietzsche, but rather a thought experiment in how he would respond to our…… Read More »
Simone Weil and Continental Philosophy
Simone Weil (1909-1943) was an extraordinarily brilliant and original thinker who died at an early age during the Second World War, having lived life of…… Read More »
The Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita, according to Ravi, is perhaps the single most important text to emerge from India. I have a number of editions, including those…… Read More »
LIGHT UPON THE PATH
As President of Wrekin Trust, founded by Sir George Trevelyan in 1971, I attended a closing celebration of its work at Hawkwood College last month.…… Read More »
THE HUMAN SITUATION
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), brother of Sir Julian Huxley and grandson of TH Huxley, was one of the most brilliant intellectuals of his generation and author…… Read More »
Mirror, Mirror – The Uses and Abuses of Self-love
This subtle and erudite study explores the history and nature of self-love, showing that narcissism, vanity, pride and self-esteem are more complex than they seem,…… Read More »
Ultimate Questions
Bryan Magee has had a long and distinguished career as a philosopher, music and theatre critic and BBC broadcaster, where he hosted a series on…… Read More »
The Happiness Philosophers
The last 20 years have seen the rise of positive psychology and virtue ethics as well as the development of a scholarly industry around happiness,…… Read More »
Stress and Freedom
I reviewed Peter Sloterdijk's book on self-formation in the last issue, and here he takes a historical view of the concept of freedom from ancient…… Read More »