Book description
Can infidelity be good for you? What does it mean to stay true to
yourself? Must we fulfil our potential? Self-help with a distinctly
cerebral edge, the shrink and the sage - aka Julian Baggini and
Antonia Macaro - have been dispensing advice through their FT column
since October 2010. Combining practical advice on personal dilemmas
with meditations on the meaning of concepts like free will,
spirituality and independence, this book - their first together -
expands on these columns and adds much more. Through questions of
existential unease, metaphysical trauma and - for instance - how much
we should care about our appearance, intellectual agony uncle and aunt
team Baggini and Macaro begin to piece together the answer that we'd
all like to hear: what is the good life, and how we can live it?
Julian Baggini is one the UK's best-known philosophers. Previous
books include The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten and The Ego Trick.
Antonia Macaro, his partner, has over twenty years' experience as
an existential psychotherapist and is the author of Reason, Virtue and Psychotherapy.
