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Great Thinkers

Simple Tools from 60 Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today

  • Hardback
  • 416 pages
  • Publisher: The School of Life Press
  • 15.6 x 20.6 x 4.3 cm

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For those seeking wisdom from great thinkers today.

Great Thinkers helps you understand complex ideas simply.

You gain insights to improve your life and thinking skills.

Discover the wisdom of history's greatest thinkers and learn how their ideas can inspire and help you in your everyday life.

A unique selection of the greatest thinkers from the fields of philosophy, political theory, sociology, art, architecture and literature, with enjoyable profiles of what they have to teach to us today.Typically, great thinkers have been included in encyclopaedic works on the basis of reputation and historic influence. The School of Life has a different aim: to work out whose ideas stand the highest chance of being helpful in our lives now. It does so by following a number of principles: 1) Only a few things that any mind, however great, has ever said are likely to be of central lasting importance. 2) These key points are detachable from the full body of a thinker's work. 3) We are forgetful, time-pressured creatures. So we need central messages spelt out memorably and simply. 4) Whatever academic culture tells us, context is not decisive. Important truths get lodged in odd places and can be extricated from them - they may lie in 3rd century China, or in an aristocratic salon in 18th century Paris. What matters is what they can do for us now.
The 60 chosen thinkers include La Rochefoucauld, Lao Tzu, Matsuo Basho, Sen no Rikyu, Alexis de Tocqueville, St Benedict, Donald Winnicott, John Bowlby, Melanie Klein, Andrea Palladio, Coco Chanel, Henri Matisse; as well as more familiar entries such as Plato, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Marx, Confucius and Freud.

  • Title

    Great Thinkers

  • Author

    The School of Life

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    The School of Life Press

  • Published

    April 2016

  • Weight

    804g

  • Page Count

    416

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 20.6 x 4.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780993538704

  • ISBN-10

    0993538703

  • Eden Code

    4590350

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