Bøger af Scott Samuelson

By engaging with thinkers such as Mill, Nietzsche, Arendt, and others, reading Job with inmates at local prisons, and showing how musical genres like jazz and blues harness the beauty and agony of suffering, Samuelson invites us to see how philosophy can help us understand suffering.

Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. Exploring the works of some of history's most important thinkers in the context of the everyday struggles of his students, the author guides us through the most vexing quandaries of our existence - and shows just how enriching the examined life can be.