Derrida’s “nagging fear that those who saw him as a charlatan were right never left him.” Given his whole project was one of radical doubt, he could hardly have felt otherwise. He was in this respect more truly a philosopher than those who question everything except the peculiarities of their own methods of questioning.
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Perhaps we will soon look back and say, as Sartre did: ‘The circumstances, atrocious as they often were, finally made it possible for us to live, without pretence or false shame, the hectic and impossible existence that is known as the lot of man.’
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Even if we don’t believe that Jesus was the son of God, we tend to think he was a great moral teacher. But was he? And how closely do idealised values such as our love of the family, helping the needy, and the importance of kindness, match his original tenets?
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In this insightful, engaging book, existential psychotherapist and philosophical counsellor Antonia Macaro and bestselling philosopher Julian Baggini cover topics such as bereavement, luck, free will and relationships, and guide us through what the greatest thinkers to ever walk the earth have to say on these subjects, from the Stoics to Sartre.
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“Digs in to every food-lover’s favourite film. This slender treat nourishes with every page – with never a hint of a recipe.” – Financial Times
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