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"This warm and witty book does something wonderful: it brings the great ideas of philosophy into our lives. Young is a bright new voice." --John Armstrong, author of Love, Life, Goethe: How to be Happy in an Imperfect World
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Most of us struggle with distraction every day: the familiar feeling that our attention is not quite where it should be. We feel it at work and at home and it can be frustrating and uncomfortable. But what is distraction? In his lucid, timely book, Damon Young shows that distraction is more than too many stimuli, or too little attention. It is actually a matter of value - to be distracted is to be torn away from what is worthwhile in life. And for Young, what is most worthwhile is freedom: not simply rights or legal liberties, but the capacity to patiently, creatively craft one's own life. Exploring the lives of such luminaries as Henri Matisse, Karl Marx, Seneca and Henry James, Young exposes distraction in work, technology, art, politics and intimacy. With warmth and wit, he reveals what is most valuable, and what is best avoided, in the pursuit of a life of one's own.
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Or rather how it is best "spent".
This is a good philosophical read, written in an engaging pace and style, the contents tell little about what each chapter is about but there is an excellent index and great bibliographical final chapter recommending reads from those which the author found most inspirational.
It is a straight shooting materialistic and worldly philosophical read, written in full view of our mortality, treating it with finality and then asking what sort of choices and life should recommend itself.
The answers are supplied by selections from the great philosophers, in this sense the author is like many "second hand dealers in ideas" and it is not unlike how The Consolations of Philosophy or other books like it read. However the author does provide his own insights and unique material, the selection, deselection and arrangment of authors and topics is interesting in and off itself.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes philosophical writing, it isnt exactly what I would describe as pop-philosophy, in the best chapters it is comparable to the philosophy for general readers books written by Bertrand Russell. For anyone who likes philosophical reads and is always on the look out for recommended reads it could be a useful both as reading material and for pointing up others like it.
This is a good philosophical read, written in an engaging pace and style, the contents tell little about what each chapter is about but there is an excellent index and great bibliographical final chapter recommending reads from those which the author found most inspirational.
It is a straight shooting materialistic and worldly philosophical read, written in full view of our mortality, treating it with finality and then asking what sort of choices and life should recommend itself.
The answers are supplied by selections from the great philosophers, in this sense the author is like many "second hand dealers in ideas" and it is not unlike how The Consolations of Philosophy or other books like it read. However the author does provide his own insights and unique material, the selection, deselection and arrangment of authors and topics is interesting in and off itself.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes philosophical writing, it isnt exactly what I would describe as pop-philosophy, in the best chapters it is comparable to the philosophy for general readers books written by Bertrand Russell. For anyone who likes philosophical reads and is always on the look out for recommended reads it could be a useful both as reading material and for pointing up others like it.
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