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The Idea of Holiness and the Humane Response

ARMSTRONG, JOHN

Religion & Spirituality

Unwin Hyman

Have you ever wondered how typewriters can rival commercial radio? Why, according to John, it's best to shave only once a week, and with old fashioned soap and water? And what the various repercussions of spring and its extra hour of daylight bring? The BBC created a fantastically cult television series when they filmed the daily operations of John and Ann's double glazing firm U-Fit, the third largest in Coventry. It was here we were first introduced to John's misanthropic musings and no-nonsense attitude to management and his wife Ann's doting loyalty. Now their individual and highly entertaining personalities have been brought to the page, as they ruminate on various aspects of life from asbos to Buddhism, and Chekov to Maltesers.

The Armstrongs' A-Z Guide to Life

Humor & Entertainment

Armstrong, Ann

Humor

Arrow

Raises one of the deepest and most puzzling questions we can put to ourselves ' What is Love?' Drawing on writers and thinkers as diverse as Plato, Tolstoy, Freud and Stendhal, John Armstrong explores how our perception of love is formed by culture and history. For anyone who believes or disbelieves in love.

Conditions Of Love: The Philosophy Of Intimacy

Self-Help

Penguin Uk

Is it possible to be truly happy? In an imperfect world, how can we live well with what we have, and accept what we don’t have? In Love, Life, Goethe, John Armstrong looks at the life of the renowned yet often misunderstood writer Goethe to show the surprising ways in which we can learn from him, whether in love, suffering, friendship or family. He shows how relevant Goethe is to the way we live today, and how he wanted (much the same as us) to live life well. From work to our relationships to money and success, John Armstrong explores the main themes of our existence through Goethe, and helps us learn how to live.

Love Life Goethe: How To Be Happy In An Imperfect World

Biographies & Memoirs

Physical xi, 153 p., 12 plates, ill. (incl 2 col), 23 cm. Includes material on Renaissance art and Sumerian and Greek myth and art. Bibl. p.xl. Paradise in literature. English - literature - Early modern, 1500-1700.

The Paradise Myth

Literature & Fiction

Classics

Oxford U.P.

A fascinating look at the place of art in the modern world takes readers on a lively tour of the art world, moving beyond history, theory, and criticism to explore the true roots of the human love affair with art. 10,000 first printing.

Move Closer : An Intimate Philosophy of Art

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

A fresh and perceptive new biography of Germany's greatest poet, whose life and times are a mirror for our own Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is often remembered only as a figure of literary genius, author of The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust. Yet Goethe was driven by much more than the desire for literary success: he wanted (much the same as us) to live life well. In Love, Life, Goethe, John Armstrong tells the dramatic life story of this great poet—a representative man akin to Wordsworth in England or Emerson in America. In so doing, he subtly and imaginatively explores the ways that we can learn from Goethe, whether in love, suffering, friendship, or family. At the center of the project is the human yearning for happiness: In an imperfect world, how can we live well with what we have, and accept what we haven’t? From our lives at home, to our attitude toward money and the politicians we choose, Armstrong explores the main themes of our lives through the life of Goethe, and helps us learn how to live.

Love, Life, Goethe: Lessons of the Imagination from the Great German Poet

Arts & Literature

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

How many of us have stood before famous paintings only to realize, with quiet panic, that we can't work out what the fuss is all about? What do we do-beyond just staring-to get the most out of art? How do we come to develop an attachment to individual works and find them fascinating? How do they come to matter to us? While many teachers and critics have diligently directed attention to questions in art history, theory, or criticism, John Armstrong, in a powerful and original shift of focus, considers the roots of our personal attachment to art. Perhaps this most neglected aspect of thinking about art is also the most important. Moving easily between the intimacies of personal experience and lucid, philosophical reflection, Armstrong acts as a sensitive and persuasive guide.

Move Closer: An Intimate Philosophy of Art

Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy

“A gracefully argued and compassionate work. . . . Armstrong does for philosophy what Adam Phillips does for psychoanalysis: removes our fear of it: demonstrates its fascinations. Conditions of Love works like a loving conversation; the reader is attracted, amused, encouraged to respond, left fulfilled and eager for more.” ―Independent on Sunday ‘What is it to love another person?’ This is to raise one of the deepest, and most puzzling, questions we can put to ourselves. Love is a central theme in the autobiography we each write as we try to understand our lives; but we may feel that we become only more confused the more we reflect upon it. Love is closely connected with our vision of happiness; yet there is no one we are more likely to hurt, or be hurt by, than the person we love. If love is something we all want, why is it so hard to find and harder to keep? Love is one of humanity’s most persistent and most esteemed ideals, but it is hard to say exactly what this ideal is and how―if at all―it relates to real life.

Parenting & Relationships

W.W.Norton&Company

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The Idea of Holiness and the Humane Response

The Armstrongs' A-Z Guide to Life

Conditions Of Love: The Philosophy Of Intimacy

Love Life Goethe: How To Be Happy In An Imperfect World

The Paradise Myth

Move Closer : An Intimate Philosophy of Art

Love, Life, Goethe: Lessons of the Imagination from the Great German Poet

Move Closer: An Intimate Philosophy of Art

Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy

Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy