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Jules Evans is Policy Director at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London, where he runs the Well-Being Project. He has worked with organisations including the new economics foundation, the RSA, the School of Life and the Rockefeller Foundation on philosophy and well-being. He also writes for publications including the Spectator, The Times, the Wall Street Journal and Psychologies, and for his own blog,www.philosophyforlife.org. He is co-organiser of the London Philosophy Club, and the founder of www.thephilosophyhub.com, an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project to research and promote philosophy groups worldwide.
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"Instructive and thought-provoking...shows philosophy is not just for stuffy classrooms" Financial Times "This wonderful book shows how modern psychology is consistent with the best that was thought and known in the Ancient World...also beautifully written" -- Lord Richard Layard, Author, Happiness: Lessons From A New Science "A revelation" -- Alexander Linklater Observer "Witty and accessible.Highly recommended." The Psychologist magazine "A brilliant and timely book." -- Tom Hodgkinson, Author Of How To Be Free
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- PublisherRider & Co
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1846043212
- ISBN 13 9781846043215
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages304
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