Feel free to jump around. The book starts slowly, but when de Botton hits his stride, he can be as amusing as Monty Python and as provocative as Karl Marx, another continental who left Europe for ...

Alain de Botton (December 20, 1969) is a Swiss-born British author and public speaker. His books discuss various co ...

This pensive study explores work not as an economic or sociological phenomenon but as an existential predicament. Observing an eclectic sample of workers, from fishermen to a CEO of an accounting firm ...

This sophisticated gazebo of a book is the latest dispatch from the Swiss-born, London-based author of the influential handbook How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel (1997). Promising to teach ...

Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project - a joyful, democratically-minded concept to share quality architecture in the UK - was borne out of personal crisis. The Swiss-born philosopher and ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Alain De Botton is a Founder and Chair for the School of Life with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1997 Speech as an Author. The year with ...

Alain de Botton is a phenomenon. A public intellectual who sells millions of books. A whimsical freethinker who dares to make high-brown subject matter useful and relatable. An atheist who believes in ...

HOW TO BE AN ART REBEL By Ben Street Illustrated by Jay Daniel Wright WHAT ADULTS DON’T KNOW ABOUT ART Written by The School of Life Edited by Alain de Botton As an art critic with two sons, I ...

An understanding that work is essentially a miserable use of one’s time was for centuries “one of mankind’s primary bulwarks against bitterness,” says author Alain de Botton. There’s no such defense ...

Inspired by those vast 18th-century paintings that depict a whole city at work — from the government minister to the candlestick maker — de Botton goes on a global tour of the daily grind. His trek ...