About the Author Kieran Setiya is a professor of philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Although one might presume this crisis is better. So he’s written a self-help guide that attempts to apply the tools philosophers use to this problem. Kieran Setiya is having a midlife crisis, and he guesses you might be having one too. Drawing on thinkers from ancient Rome to nineteenth-century England, it offers gentle solace in the face of midlife’s woes. Midlife: A Philosophical Guide, by Kieran Setiya (Princeton University Press), £18.95/22.95. Writing with wisdom and wit, Setiya makes a wry but passionate case for philosophy as a guide to life.Ī delightful amalgam of self-help and intellectual inquiry. Midlife (2017) is a philosophical guide to navigating the troubles that middle age can present.

Ranging from Aristotle, Schopenhauer, and John Stuart Mill to Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir, as well as drawing on Setiya's own experience, Midlife combines imaginative ideas, surprising insights, and practical advice. And you will learn what it would mean to live in the present, how it could solve your midlife crisis, and why meditation helps. You will be introduced to philosophical consolations for mortality. You will learn why missing out might be a good thing, how options are overrated, and when you should be glad you made a mistake. How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the prospect of death that blights the future? In this self-help book with a difference, Kieran Setiya confronts the inevitable challenges of adulthood and middle age, showing how philosophy can help you thrive. Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle age. Listen Free to Midlife: A Philosophical Guide audiobook by Kieran Setiya with a 30 Day Free Trial Stream and download audiobooks to your computer.

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