The Importance Of Living
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Book: Good
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Pages: Tanning and foxing
What does it truly mean to live well? In The Importance of Living, Chinese-American scholar and philosopher Lin Yutang presents a luminous, deeply personal manifesto on the art of unhurried existence, arguing with gentle conviction that the Western world has lost its capacity for leisure, pleasure, and the simple joys that make life worth enduring. Drawing on centuries of Chinese philosophy and literature — from Confucius to the Taoist sages — Yutang chronicles a way of being that prizes idleness, poetry, tea-drinking, and the contemplation of clouds above the relentless pursuit of progress and productivity. Written with a tone that is at once erudite and warmly conversational, the work stands as one of the twentieth century's most charming works of cross-cultural philosophy, a book that illuminates Eastern wisdom for Western readers without ever condescending to either tradition. Yutang's prose is unhurried and elegant, moving effortlessly between classical allusion and wry, self-deprecating humour, and his vision of a life governed by sensibility rather than ambition remains as quietly radical today as when it was first published. For anyone who has ever suspected that the busy world is wrong, this volume offers both permission and instruction to stop, breathe, and simply be.
Author: Lin Yutang
Format: Hardback
Published: 1952, William Heinemann Ltd
Genre: Philosophy
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
What does it truly mean to live well? In The Importance of Living, Chinese-American scholar and philosopher Lin Yutang presents a luminous, deeply personal manifesto on the art of unhurried existence, arguing with gentle conviction that the Western world has lost its capacity for leisure, pleasure, and the simple joys that make life worth enduring. Drawing on centuries of Chinese philosophy and literature — from Confucius to the Taoist sages — Yutang chronicles a way of being that prizes idleness, poetry, tea-drinking, and the contemplation of clouds above the relentless pursuit of progress and productivity. Written with a tone that is at once erudite and warmly conversational, the work stands as one of the twentieth century's most charming works of cross-cultural philosophy, a book that illuminates Eastern wisdom for Western readers without ever condescending to either tradition. Yutang's prose is unhurried and elegant, moving effortlessly between classical allusion and wry, self-deprecating humour, and his vision of a life governed by sensibility rather than ambition remains as quietly radical today as when it was first published. For anyone who has ever suspected that the busy world is wrong, this volume offers both permission and instruction to stop, breathe, and simply be.