About this title: "The Conquest of Happiness" is Bertrand Russell's recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading the reader step by step through the causes of unhappiness and the personal choices, compromises and sacrifices that (may) lead to the final, affirmative conclusion of "The Happy Man", this is popular philosophy, or even self-help, as it should be written.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Liveright
Date Published: 3/17/1996
ISBN-13:9780871401625ISBN:0871401622
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Description: NEW/Trade pb. Great British philosopher's rational approach to happiness. Don't tamper with lives of others, for instance. New condition, no marks, bright, straight. Liveright trade pb, 249 pp. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yonsei University Press
Date Published: 1960
Description: Very Good. 171 pages. Text is primarily in English, with additional annotations in Korean. [box 12] No highlighting or underlining within. Crisp, clean pages within. Light edge wear. Scarce edition. Out of print. read more
Edition: 1979 reprint
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Unwin Books, London
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780041710045ISBN:0041710045
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Covers show edge and corner wear, some rubbing and light creasing to spine. Pages are moderately age browned. No markings to text, binding is sound. 192p. : 1port.; 20 cm. Includes Portraits. Originally published: London: Allen and Unwin, 1930. Bibliography: p.192. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 1996-02-01
ISBN-13:9780871401625ISBN:0871401622
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Liveright
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780871401625ISBN:0871401622
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"Bertrand Russell was the quintessential rational man. In this book he applies rationality to psychology in a systematic examination of human thinking and motivations. Without denying the importance of external social forces, he concerns himself here with only those factors which lie within the power of the individual mind to change.
Discussing the psychological causes of unhappiness, he concludes that preoccupation with self is the chief culprit. The personality should be directed outward. The introvert, "with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things." Not unlike Dale Carnegie's advice! Preoccupations with sin and the "sympathy of the herd" are other causes of misery. He advises a quiet life satisfying to instinct. To Russell, happiness was especially important because he regarded it as the best hope for ending warfare and other social ills.
On pages 12 and 126 he makes comments that might be construed as racist, which is surprising and out of character for him. Maybe I'm reading him wrong but he seems to be concerned about the "dwindling" of the white population. You decide. Otherwise, this book is clear, concise, readable, and very quotable."
"i do not like self-help books but i LOVED this book and highly recommend. it's not about how to change what you DO or HAVE in order to be happy - it's about how to find happiness now.....in the things you have, the things you see and the people around you."
"I liked it and would recommend as a common sense view - see also consolations of philosophy by De Botton. Bit self satisfied, but clear and well written"
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