Life Is Hard

Life Is Hard
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A philosophical guide to facing life’s inevitable hardships.

There is no cure for the human condition: life is hard. But Kieran Setiya believes philosophy can help. He offers us a map for navigating rough terrain, from personal trauma to the injustice and absurdity of the world.

In this profound and personal book, Setiya shows how the tools of philosophy can help us find our way. Drawing on ancient and modern philosophy as well as fiction, history, memoir, film, comedy, social science, and stories from Setiya’s own experience, Life Is Hard is a book for this moment—a work of solace and compassion.

Warm, accessible, and good-humored, this book is about making the best of a bad lot. It offers guidance for coping with pain and making new friends, for grieving the lost and failing with grace, for confronting injustice and searching for meaning in life. Countering pop psychologists and online influencers who admonish us to “find our bliss” and “live our best lives,” Setiya acknowledges that the best is often out of reach. Instead, he asks how we can weather life’s adversities, finding hope and living well when life is hard.


Kieran Setiya is a professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of Midlife: A Philosophical Guide. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement (London), the London Review of Books, The New York Times, Aeon, and The Yale Review.

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  • 初繁言
    10-15
    支持塞老师!鸡精味没那么重的鸡汤,第四章开炮life as narrative view打得好。直觉上第七章on hope, 直接去lang/action/epistemology里找或许有更剔透的解读。
  • 当时环佩留清响
    10-13
    前面三章有不少有意思的ethics内容,后面部分略无聊
  • 迷信鉴定员小谈
    10-10
    if your life is hard, thinking about philosophical questions only makes it harder, stupid
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