Pleasures & Sorrows Of Work The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9780141027913
  • 25 maart 2010
  • 329 pagina's
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Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton (1969) is het boegbeeld van de toegepaste filosofie. In 1993 debuteerde hij met Proeven van liefde (Essays on Love), dat direct een bestseller werd en nu gezien kan worden als de voorloper van Weg van liefde. Daarna schreef hij nog zeven boeken die verschillende thema's van ons dagelijks leven behandelen. Het werk van De Botton is in twintig talen vertaald. Op bol.com vind je alle boeken van Alain de Botton, waaronder het nieuwste boek van Alain de Botton.

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Why do so many of us love or hate our work? How has it come to dominate our lives? And what should we do about it? What should I do with my life? What will I have achieved when I retire? This book explains why it is we do what we do all day, but its sympathy, humour and insight seeks to help us make the most of it.



From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life - a lucid exploration of the state in which most of us spend most of our lives

'De Botton's wit and powers of ironic observation are on display throughout what is a stylish and original book. The workplace brings out the best in his writing' Sunday Times

'Timely, wonderfully readable. De Botton has pretty much got to the bottom of the subject' Spectator

'Terribly funny, touches us all' Daily Mail

'Brilliant, enormously engaging' Guardian


Why do so many of us love or hate our work? How has it come to dominate our lives? And what should we do about it?

Work makes us. Without it we are at a loss; in work we hope to have a measure of control over our lives. Yet for many of us, work is a straitjacket from which we cannot free ourselves.

Criss-crossing the world to visit workplaces and workers both ordinary and extraordinary, and drawing on the wit and wisdom of great artists, writers and thinkers, Alain de Botton here explores our love-hate relationship with our jobs. He poses and answers little and big questions: from what should I do with my life? to what will I have achieved when I retire?

The Pleasure and Sorrows of Work explains why it is we do what we do all day, and applies sympathy, humour and insight to helping us make the most of it.

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  • Secrets and Details of Work

    Misleading title: This book is an essay and photo reportage about all kinds of work. It describes in detail different facets about logistics, accountancy, entrepeneurship etc., illustrated with images. De Botton expresses his fascination with all the unknown behind the scenes of cargo ships, biscuit manufacture and aviation. He follows a tuna on its way from the ocean to a consumers mouth. He pictures the atmosphere of the logistic activities in a warehouse at night, of which we are unaware in our sleep. De Botton portrays all this with a respectful and curious pen but I was disappointed with the result because I expected something else. Only at the start and at the end of the book did he dwell on the significance of work in our lives. How it can give meaning to our lives as love does, and how it distracts us from thinking about our vulnerablity and mortality. A more accurate title would be: Secrets and Details of Work.

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