Learning to live
Subtitle: a user's manual
By: Luc Ferry ; translated from the French by Theo Cuffe
Contributors: Cuffe, Theo
Publisher: Canongate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781847672865
Subjects: Philosophy; Introductions
Description: This book will make you change the way you think about philosophy. Instead of treating philosophy as a dry academic subject, Luc Ferry shows how it is essential to our everyday lives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: What is Philosophy? -- -- 2.; title: T̀he Greek Miracle' -- -- 3.; title: Victory of Christianity over Greek Philosophy -- -- 4.; title: Humanism, or the Birth of Modern Philosophy -- -- 5.; title: Postmodernity: The Case of Nietzsche -- -- 6.; title: After Deconstruction: Contemporary Philosophy.