What is Culture For?

What is Culture For?

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By Alain de Botton

How to find compassion, hope and perspective in the arts.

This book proposes that works of culture were all made, in one way or another, with the idea of improving the way we live. This book connects a range of cultural masterpieces with our own dilemmas and pains around love, work and society, and invites us to see culture as a resource with which to address the complex agonies of being human. It provides us with enduring keys to unlocking culture as a way of transforming our lives.

Published by. The School of Life, 2019
Hardcover with 112 pages
Dimensions: 7 x 4 inches

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By Alain de Botton How to find compassion, hope and perspective in the arts. This book proposes that works of culture were all made, in one way or another, with the idea of improving the way we live. This book connects a range of cultural masterpieces with our own dilemmas and pains around love, work and society, and invites us to see culture as a resource with which to address the complex agonies of being human. It provides us with enduring keys to unlocking culture as a way of transforming...