The Philosophy of Everyday Life
Admission £5.00/£3.00 concessions
Breakfast with Socrates: the Philosophy of Everyday Life was
published in 2009 to critical acclaim; the Financial Times hailed it
as 'philosophy made accessible and applied to the quotidien', a book
which 'manages to be funny without underestimating the reader.' It will
appear in translation around the world this year. Following the success
of Breakfast with Socrates, Robert has been commissioned to write another work in a similar vein; Driving with Plato: the Meaning of Life's Milestones is to be published next year.
Robert Rowland Smith is a writer on philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature in the context of 'everyday life'. A prize fellow of All Saints College, Oxford, Robert has written academic books including Derrida and Autobiography (1995) and Death Drive: Freudian Hauntings in Literature and Art (2010). Robert is also on the faculty of The School of Life, an institution founded by fellow philsopher Alain De Botton, to promote 'ideas to live by'. His most recent work, Breakfast with Socrates explores these ideas in an academic context.
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