Podcast Episodes featuring Alain de Botton
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Alain de Botton — The True Hard Work of Love and Relationships
On Being with Krista Tippett - February 11, 2021 19:05 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsAs people, and as a culture, Alain de Botton says, we would be much saner and happier if we reexamined our very view of love. His New York Times essay, “Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person,” is one of their most-read articles in recent years, and this is one of the most popular episodes we’ve ev...
[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett - February 11, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsAs people, and as a culture, Alain de Botton says, we would be much saner and happier if we reexamined our very view of love. His New York Times essay, “Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person,” is one of their most-read articles in recent years, and this is one of the most popular episodes we’ve ev...
Alain de Botton on keeping love alive
Lit Up - December 18, 2020 03:03 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 117 ratingsIf you've ever been in love, had your heart broken, been in a relationship, or yearned for one, this week's episode is for you -- in other words, if you're a human, you'll benefit from listening to the wise words of world-renowned philosopher and writer Alain de Botton. See omnystudio.com/listene...
SPECIAL EPISODE! How To Fail: Alain De Botton on embracing vulnerability in the age of Coronavirus
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day - March 31, 2020 08:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 717 ratingsIn the second of two special episodes, the renowned philosopher Alain de Botton, returns to How To Fail With Elizabeth Day to talk about how to be human and how to stay (relatively) sane in the grip of a global pandemic. We talk about the fact that, right now, it's rational to be a little demente...
Thinking about work - a discussion with Alain de Botton
Eat Sleep Work Repeat - January 29, 2020 05:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 306 ratingsHere he is, the philosopher king. Alain de Botton is the man that wrote philosophy books that sold like airport thrillers. He's sold millions of books reflecting on life, work and happiness. We share a wonderful discussion about what role work can fulfil in our lives, where education is going w...
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Flow Sessions with Jason Silva - January 28, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsAlain de Botton was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1969 and now lives in London. He's writer of essayistic books that have been described as a philosophy of everyday life. He's written on love, travel, architecture and literature. His books have been bestsellers in 30 countr...
S6, Ep2 How to Fail: Alain De Botton
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day - October 02, 2019 06:30 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 717 ratingsThis week on How To Fail, we are doing something slightly different. I know, I know, we don't like change, but sometimes IT'S GOOD FOR US. It's especially good for us when it comes in the form of Alain de Botton, one of the most intelligent, eloquent and thoughtful people on the planet.And becaus...
[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett - August 02, 2018 15:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsWhat if the first question we asked on a date were, “How are you crazy? I’m crazy like this”? Philosopher and writer Alain de Botton’s essay “Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person” was one of the most-read articles in The New York Times in recent years. As people and as a culture, he says, we wou...
Design Matters from the Archive: Alain de Botton
Design Matters with Debbie Millman - June 19, 2017 20:00 ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsDebbie talks to Alain de Botton about love and sex.
Alain de Botton — A School of Life for Atheists
On Being with Krista Tippett - September 29, 2016 16:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsAlain de Botton is a philosopher who likes the best of religion, but doesn’t believe in God. He says that the most boring question you can ask of any religion is whether it is true. But how to live, how to die, what is good, and what is bad — these are questions religion has sophisticated ways ...
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Design Matters with Debbie Millman - June 27, 2016 20:00 ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsDebbie talks to Alain de Botton about love and sex.
#118: How Philosophy Can Change Your Life, Alain de Botton
The Tim Ferriss Show - November 10, 2015 16:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14.3K ratingsAlain de Botton (@alaindebotton) is many things, but I think of him as a rare breed of practical philosopher. In 1997, he turned away from writing novels and instead wrote an extended essay titled How Proust Can Change Your Life, which became an unlikely blockbuster. His subsequent book...
Should atheists be more religious? Alain de Botton & James Orr - Unbelievable? 11 Feb 2012
Unbelievable? - June 23, 2014 17:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratingsAtheism 2.0 is the logical next step for non-believers according to cultural philosopher Alain de Botton. He outlines why atheists should borrow from the art, architecture, community, and contemplative traditions of religion without the supernatural beliefs. The book "Religion for atheists"...
Alain de Botton on Atheism 2.0
Philosophy Bites - January 16, 2012 07:36 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsSome atheists despise religion and ridicule it as absurd. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Alain de Botton, author of Religion for Atheists, takes a more pragmatic line, arguing that atheists can learn a great deal from religion. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the In...
Philosophical journalist Alain de Botton
Notebook on Cities and Culture - June 25, 2009 06:36 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsA conversation with Alain de Botton, author of fiction, nonfiction, journalism and various hybrids thereof. Following treatises on Proust, philosophy, travel and architecture, de Botton's newest book of "philosophical journalism" is The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work.
Alain de Botton on Philosophy Within and Outside the Academy
Philosophy Bites - November 11, 2007 20:43 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsWhat is philosophy? Does academic philosophy squeeze the life out of some of the most important questions we can ask? Alain de Botton, author of the bestseller The Consolations of Philosophy, discusses his conception of philosophy and the importance of literary style with Nigel Warburton in this ...
Alain de Botton on The Aesthetics of Architecture
Philosophy Bites - June 27, 2007 08:21 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsHow important is beauty in architecture? Is a concern with beauty mere asetheticism? Alain de Botton, author of The Architecture of Happiness, discusses the nature and value of architectural beauty in this episode of Philosophy Bites.