Alain de Botton
Articles by Alain de Botton
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Ideas
Nature’s vital circles
- 26 March 2009
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Work dominates our lives, yet its places and processes are ignored by artists. Now, more than ever, we must learn to appreciate the world in which we labour
Diary - Alain de Botton
- 01 May 2006
I've been Booton, Botten, Alan, Alun, Allen, Ellen. My car insurance is made out to a Mr Bottom. My dentist calls me Elaine
Society
The shame of failure
- 01 January 2005
2005: Self-esteem - Today, we all think it's our own fault if we haven't become as rich as Bill Gates
Diary - Alain de Botton
- 08 March 2004
"Status anxiety" is what we're liable to feel when a good friend calls us up with a piece of what they call "excellent news": they've been promoted or awarded an important prize
Perhaps because of my early books about love, I've been approached to endorse a Dater Transmitter
- 30 April 2001
"Despite the pretensions of his name," wrote the Amazon.com reviewer, "he's no Louis de Bernieres"
- 29 November 1999
Politics
Wine, women and prose
- 23 August 1999
The popular view of the author as glamorous could not be further from the truth. The writer Alain de Botton reveals the humdrum reality behind the myth
Politics
Plato rules, OK?
- 11 December 1998
Alain de Bottonargues that, in our self-help age, the ancient philosophers are inevitably more popular than Derrida, Baudrillard and the deconstructionists
