Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories And Death Stories - Couverture rigide

Phillips, Adam

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ISBN 10 : 046505675X ISBN 13 : 9780465056750

Editeur : Basic Books, 2000

Synopsis

Book by Phillips Adam

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Adam Phillips has been called the psychotherapist of the floating world” and the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness.” His style is epigrammatic; his intelligence, electric.His new book, Darwin's Worms , uses the biographical details of Darwin's and Freud's lives to examine endings suffering, mortality, extinction, and death. Both Freud and Darwin were interested in how destruction conserves life. They took their inspiration from fossils or from half-remembered dreams. Each told a story that has altered our perception of our lives. For Darwin, Phillips explains, the story to tell was how species can drift towards extinction; for Freud, the story was how the individual tended to, and tended towards his own death.” In each case, it is a death-story that uniquely illuminates the life story.

Biographie de l'auteur

Adam Phillips has been called "the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness." Formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London, Phillips is the author of such works as Winnicott; On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored; Monogamy; On Flirtation; Terror and Experts; Darwin's Worms; Promises, Promises; and Houdini's Box.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 046505675X
• ISBN 13: 9780465056750
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160