Alain de Botton appears in the following:
A Healthier Way to Think About Sex
Friday, April 17, 2015
Can You Trust The Media?
Monday, February 17, 2014
Alain de Botton on Art for Mental Health's Sake
Tuesday, December 03, 2013
He's already shown "How Proust Can Change Your Life" and written about "The Architecture of Happiness" -- now, Alain de Botton, writer, philosopher, founder of London's The School of Life, and co-author, with art historian John Armstrong, of Art as Therapy (Phaidon, 2013), turns to fine art and specific works that can make us better people and how museums can help.
Non-Believer's Religion
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Alain de Botton, writer, philosopher and author of Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion, looks at what religion offers, even to the agnostic and atheist.
'Religion for Atheists': How to Get Past An Argumentative Impasse
Monday, March 05, 2012
Religion plays a fundamental role in daily life, and in political life, to believers and non-believers both. And while wars have been fought and era-defining antagonisms built for centuries between opposing religions, the relatively recent antagonism between believers and non-believers has reached something of a fever pitch. You can trace it to the Enlightenment, but the likes of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens have brought the argument to a head … or maybe to a standstill. Is any kind of progress possible in a debate between religious-believers and atheists? Or is there just a never-breakable impasse between the two worldviews?
Plane Living
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Writer and philosopher Alain de Botton discusses his new book A Week at the Airport and what he learned as "writer-in-residence" at Heathrow airport.
For Stranded Passengers, Imagining a World Without Planes
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
European officials struck a deal yesterday to reopen most of Europe's air space to plane travel as early as this afternoon, assuming Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano continues to subside. This would end the worst peacetime travel disruption in history, a travel crisis that has left thousands of passengers stranded for days and cost the airline industry hundreds of millions of dollars. But in the midst of the chaos and inconveniences, one philosopher took a moment to reflect on what our world would look like without airplanes.
Live to Work/Work to Live
Monday, June 08, 2009
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Driven
Monday, June 08, 2009
Love, Work and the Meaning of Life
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
The Architecture of Happiness
Friday, October 27, 2006
Tacky architecture can make us cringe. Avant-garde buildings can make us think, "huh?" But according to Alain de Botton, author of The Architecture of Happiness, a well-designed building can be more sublime than most aphrodisiacs. Kurt Andersen asks de Botton which buildings put a smile of ...