by Massimo PigliucciA Field Guide to a Happy Life

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A FIELD GUIDE TO A HAPPY LIFE 53 Brief Lessons for Living MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI

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Proves… that profound wisdom can be delivered in lively, breezy prose; and that Massimo Pigliucci is uniquely gifted at translating philosophy into terms helpful for alleviating and elevating the lives of many – Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPEX

By an acclaimed Stoic philosopher, a modern reimagining of an ancient manual for happiness.

In his latest project, the philosopher and author Massimo Pigliucci takes inspiration from Epictetus’ Enchiridion, an ancient Greek how-to manual for living a happy life, where ‘happy’ means eudaemonia – that is, a life worth living. In A FIELD GUIDE TO A HAPPY LIFE, Pigliucci reboots the original manual with modern examples and science, retaining the insight and aims of the original: life needs to be lived for what it is, and not what we wish it to be; we control only our judgments and adopted values, and nothing else; the point of a human life is to be helpful to the human cosmopolis; and if we follow this advice we will achieve ataraxia, a state of enlightened serenity.

A brief, but powerful, guide to seeking the life worth living, A FIELD GUIDE TO A HAPPY LIFE is not merely a self-help book for succeeding in one’s own life, but a guide to creating a better world, too.

MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI is the K. D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. He has written for publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, among others. He is the author or editor of 12 books including HOW TO BE A STOIC: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life (Basic Books (US)/Rider (UK), 2017) and, most recently, A HANDBOOK FOR NEW STOICS (The Experiment (US)/Rider (UK), 2019). He lives in New York City.

Agent: Tisse Takagi

Publisher: Basic Books Publication: Autumn 2020 Status: Manuscript Length: 20,000 words

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