Philosophy For Life: And Other Dangerous Situations

Jules Evans

Oct 2020 · Bolinda · Narrated by John Voce

About this audiobook

This audiobook is an invitation to a dream school with a faculty that includes 12 of the greatest philosophers from the ancient world, sharing their lessons in happiness, resilience and much more. Discover how soldiers, psychologists, gangsters, astronauts, anarchists and others use these ideas today. Lively and powerful, this is philosophy for the street, for the workplace, for the battlefield, for love, for life.

About the author

Jules Evans runs the Well-Being Project at the Center for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a BBC New Generation Thinker and a co-organiser of the London Philosophy Club, the largest philosophy club in the UK, and gives talks and workshops on practical philosophy around the country. He writes for publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the Times, the Spectator, Prospect and Psychologies and has worked with organisations including the New Economics Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the School of Life, the philosophy school in London.

John Voce trained as an actor at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and having worked in the UK for over 30 years, has been a resident in Melbourne since 2015. In addition to narrating audiobooks, an occupation John loves, he has also appeared in Downton Abbey, Doctor Who, Primeval, Grantchester, Neighbours, Holby City, Miranda and Jonathan Creek. He also voiced Thomas The Tank Engine for a live international tour!