Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
The first ever global overview of philosophy: how it developed around the world and impacted the cultures in which it flourished, now in paperback.
Brief description:
Julian Baggini's books include Welcome to Everytown: A Journey into the English Mind, What's It All About?: Philosophy and the Meaning of Life, the bestselling The Pig that Wants to be Eaten, Do They Think You're Stupid?, The Ego Trick, The Virtues of the Table: How to Eat and Think, and Freedom Regained, all published by Granta Books. He has written for various newspapers, magazines, academic journals and think tanks. Baggini is a regular columnist for The Guardian, Prospect magazine, Financial Times and a columnist and book reviewer for The Wall Street Journal. He has also written for New Humanist magazine, The Week, New Statesman, New York Times and Literary Review. His website is microphilosophy.net.
Review Quotes:
"This bold fascinating book seeks to inhabit other philosophical traditions, with humility but without patronisingly exempting them from the critique he applies to ours... Deft [and] rigorous - Jane O'Grady, Financial Times"There to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life" - Observer"Terrific. The intellectual and spiritual generosity of this book makes it an essential text for our fractious and dangerously divided era" - Richard Holloway"Such scope, and such lucid, lightly worn learning. Enlightening, perspective-shifting, mind-expanding - a superb tour through world philosophies with an erudite and friendly guide" - Sarah Bakewell"Timely and important...this is his best [book] to date... Enthralling... This ingenious and open-hearted book is about the art of living well, something the West's philosophy has often neglected" - Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday"A brilliantly accessible coalescence of thought and belief from around the world...A triumph of comparative philosophy with widespread relevance for the way we live today" - Book of the Month, Waterstones
