Alain De Botton

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 328 Seiten
ISBN 0141027916
EAN 9780141027913
Veröffentlicht März 2010
Verlag/Hersteller Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
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Beschreibung

We spend most of our waking lives at work - in occupations often chosen by our unthinking sixteen-year-old selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what it might mean for us. Equally intrigued by work's pleasures and its pains, Alain de Botton here heads out into the under-charted worlds of the office, the factory, the fishing fleet and the logistics centre, ears and eyes open to the beauty, interest and sheer strangeness of the modern workplace.

Portrait

Alain de Botton is the bestselling author of fifteen books, including The School of Life: An Emotional Education, How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The Course of Love. He is the founder of The School of Life (theschooloflife.com).