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Chosen for Janury by Victoria Hoyle of Eve's Alexandria
One of my New Year’s reading resolutions for 2010 was to read some philosophy. I was pretty rubbish at it. I sat down with Bertrand Russell’s Introduction to Western Philosophy and put on a serious face, but failed to get beyond the Stoics. Then I met Luc Ferry – philosopher, teacher, former Minster for Youth and Education in France – and the fog lifted. Learning to Live is a lucid, witty and, most importantly, fool-proof introduction to five epochs of philosophical thought: Stoicism, Christianity, Humanism, Post-modernism and Deconstructionism. And it isn’t boring or boggling in the slightest. Ferry is simply a very good teacher, and knows how to break down complex theory into readily absorbed, relevant nuggets. I was dismissive of the self-help sounding title at first, but soon realised that it is a sort of self-help book: it helped me to understand the narrative of western philosophy and, better still, how that narrative had shaped the world in which I live now. Essential stuff.
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