The Conquest of Happiness

ISBN-13: 9781138127227 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 200 str.

Bertrand Russell

Opis

The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell's recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading the reader step by step through the causes of unhappiness and the personal choices, compromises and sacrifices that (may) lead to the final, affirmative conclusion of 'The Happy Man', this is popular philosophy, or even self-help, as it should be written.

Spis treści

PART I CAUSES OF UNHAPPINESS  1 What Makes People Unhappy  2 Byronic Unhappiness  3 Competition  4 Boredom and Excitement  5 Fatigue  6 Envy  7 The Sense of Sin  8 Persecution Mania  9 Fear of Public OpinionPART II CAUSES OF HAPPINESS  10 Is Happiness Still Possible?  11 Zest  12 Affection  13 The Family  14 Work  15 Impersonal Interests  16 Effort and Resignation  17 The Happy Man

O autorze

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). A celebrated mathematician and logician, Russell was and remains one of the most genuinely widely read and popular philosophers of modern times.