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- ISBN 9781783524938
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jan 2018
- Publisher: Wilton Square Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Existentialism is back
Carpe diem, seize the day, is one of the oldest pieces of life advice in Western history. But its true spirit has been hijacked by ad men and self-help gurus, reduced to the instant hit of one-click online shopping, or slogans like live in the now. We need to reclaim it to make sense of our complex, confusing times.
The last great expression of carpe diem was in the electrifying existential philosophy of the 1940s. Today it is an idea that challenges us to confront our mortality and live with greater passion and intention, rather than scrolling mindlessly on our phones or allowing freedom to become a mere choice between brands.
In Carpe Diem Regained, Roman Krznaric reinvents existentialism for our age of information and choice overload. An essential and empowering work of contemporary philosophy, the book unveils the surprising ways of seizing the day that humankind has discovered over the centuries, ways we urgently need to revive.
Roman Krznaric is a social philosopher who writes about the power of ideas to create change. After growing up in Sydney and Hong Kong, he studied at the universities of Oxford, London and Essex, where he gained his PhD in political science. His books The Good Ancestor, Empathy, and Carpe Diem Regained, have been published in more than twenty-five languages. His writings have been widely influential amongst political and ecological campaigners, education reformers, social entrepreneurs and designers. He is the founder of the world’s first Empathy Museum, a member of the Club of Rome, and a Research Fellow at the Long Now Foundation. His talks and workshops have taken him from a London prison to the TED global stage. He is also a fanatical player of the medieval sport of real tennis.
