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Published 15 June 2022
ISBN 9781922458919
Format Paperback
Extent 320pp
AU Price $24.99
NZ Price $30.00

Ideas to Save Your Life

Philosophy for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure



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Michael McGirr's profound, uplifting and accessible introduction to key philosophical ideas and their relevance to everyday life, now in a smaller and more affordable format.


This book is about the quest for order in a perplexing world.
Ideas to Save Your Life explores the wisdom of more than twenty eminent thinkers across history, from Pythagoras to the contemporary Australian philosopher Frank Jackson; from Mungo Woman to Martha Nussbaum, by way of Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch. It ranges widely across subjects to ask: from where do we draw a sense of life’s purpose? And how can philosophy make life better?

Michael McGirr’s approach is warm and personal. Ideas to Save Your Life is often funny, but it is always serious about the task of philosophy. It makes the impenetrable accessible, the indescribable palpable, and invites you to change how you see the world.

Published 15 June 2022
ISBN 9781922458919
Format Paperback
Extent 320pp
AU Price $24.99
NZ Price $30.00

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