Wise Words - The Philosophy of everyday life

Author(s): Stephen Trombley

Philosophy

A philosophical miscellany, as diverting as it is instructive, centred on an eclectic sequence of themes, ranging from advice to ageing, from backbiting to bigotry, from freedom to friendship, and from work to walking.
Stephen Trombley mines the canon of two and half millennia of Western thought for observations that reflect the seriousness, the joy and the strangeness of human existence, counterpointing these words of wisdom with episodes - sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, sometimes plain odd - from the lives of the great philosophers.
WISE WORDS includes, on each of its themes, the thoughts of philosophers from the distant past to the present. The result is a multi-dimensional treatment of each theme that crosses temporal, national and ideological boundaries.

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'An invaluable book to always have available ready for a quick dip, or longer, informative read' Nudge Books.

Stephen Trombley's most recent books are Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World (2012) and A Short History of Western Thought (2011). For 15 years he co-edited The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought with Alan Bullock.

General Fields

  • : 9781784976521
  • : Head of Zeus
  • : Head of Zeus
  • : January 2017
  • : United Kingdom
  • : March 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Stephen Trombley
  • : Paperback
  • : en
  • : 416
  • : 50 b&w illus