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idcLisa Levy takes on self-help books and the “pseudo-intellectual” in her discussion of Alain de Botton’s series published by The School of Life:
Is the very idea of an intelligent self-help book a paradox? It is certainly trying to serve two demanding masters: philosophical speculation and practical action. After all, readers don’t pick up self-help books just to ruminate on life’s dilemmas, but to be guided to solutions. The new series of self-help books published by the London-based School of Life, co-founded by the Swiss-born popular philosopher Alain de Botton, echoes the school’s lofty approach to problems, claiming to be “intelligent, rigorous, well-written new guides to everyday living.” Yet to peruse the School of Life’s calendar of classes is to fall into a vortex of jargon pitched somewhere between the banal banter of daytime talk shows and the schedule for a nightmarish New Age retreat.
David Plummer, Feast of Losses.
Feast of Losses is a series that documents David Pembroke, who in 2003 was diagnosed with Progressive Supernuclear Palsey, a rare brain disease that causes nerve endings at the base of the brain to die. The different color backgrounds were chosen by Pembroke each day to express his emotions, as he has lost his ability to use his facial muscles as a result of his condition.