How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks

ISBN-13: 9780008490799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Adam Nicolson

Opis

What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?

Recenzje

EARLY PRAISE FOR HOW TO BE

'What links all Nicolson's writing, though, is a tireless and tigerish sense of wonder and curiosity; a bounding willingness to immerse himself and his reader deeply in his subject: life... I'm not sure I've ever read a book that marries such profundity with such a sense of fun. How to Be delivers wholeheartedly on the promise of its vaunting title. It is like a net strung between the deep past and the present, a blueprint for a life well lived'
OBSERVER

'Seductive... a poetic tour of philosophical thought'
SPECTATOR

'Nicolson's gaze is deeply attentive - the stumpy pillars of ruined harbour cities, the lush slope of an alluvial plain, tiny animals on coins, pots, sculptures . . . all these things he weaves them into a vivid picture that puts flesh on shadowy bones. He has infused his quest for wisdom with a sense of poetry'
THE TABLET

'Passionate, poetic, and hauntingly beautiful, Adam Nicolson's account of the west's earliest philosophers brings vividly alive the mercantile hustle and bustle of ideas traded and transformed in a web of maritime Greek cities, where men and women first questioned the nature of the universe and established what it is to be human. In this life-affirming, vital book, those ideas sing with the excitement of a new discovery' David Stuttard

'It's hard not to be dazzled by this book. It is both scholarly and imaginative but the real dazzle lies in its depiction of philosophy not only as a way of life but as something alive itself, growing like a plant out of a particular place, something restless, searching and vital in every sense. No one else writes with the originality, energy and persuasiveness of Adam Nicolson. It's like encountering the Greek sea. It takes your breath away' Laura Beatty, bestselling author of Lost Property

O autorze

Adam Nicolson is the author of many books on history, travel and the environment. He is winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the British Topography Prize and lives at Sissinghust Castle in Kent.