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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy William B. Irvine
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy. Most cookbooks are never actually used. This review is from: A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy (Hardcover). It is written with an emphasis on practical advice, though there is also quite a bit of historical context added in. This book gives an academic's overview of Stoic philosophy. The Stoics may have been the first to realize that embracing the negative can be a useful tool for human beings attempting to lead a meaningful life. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine isn't the first attempt to explain Stoicism to a modern audience, but this book seems to be better known than some of its predecessors. This is How You Lose Her | Junot Díaz; A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy | William Irvine; Robbing the Bees: a Biography of Honey | Holley Bishop. Philosophy goes self-help, 21 Jan 2010. 28 of 28 people found the following review helpful. For additional information on Stoicism, “A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy”, anything by Seneca, and Tom Wolfe's “Man in Full” are recommended reading.