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The School of Life
Social media company about self help From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The School of Life is a British multinational[2] social media company founded in 2008 by British author and public speaker Alain de Botton.[3][4] The company is headquartered in London.[5] It publishes various materials dealing with the topics of anxiety management,[6] emotional intelligence, relationships, work, creativity, and spirituality.
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History
The School of Life was founded in 2008[4] by a group of academics, including author Alain de Botton. The curator, Sophie Howarth, is assisted by psychotherapists, artists, and educators.[7]
Publishing
As of 2016, The School of Life owns a publishing press named "The School of Life Press."[8]
Books
- Great Thinkers (2016)
- Relationships (2017)
- How to Overcome Your Childhood (2018)
- Anxiety (2019)
- Big Ideas for Curious Minds (2019)
- What They Forgot to Teach You at School (2020)
- The Good Enough Parent (2021)
- On Self Hatred (2022)
- How Modern Media Destroys Our Minds (2022)
- Big Ideas From Literature (2024)[9]
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Criticism
The company has been criticized for its representations of philosophers and philosophical arguments. The Los Angeles Review of Books criticized a series of books by the School of Life as being a "vortex of jargon pitched somewhere between the banal banter of daytime talk shows and the schedule for a nightmarish New Age retreat."[10] Professor Hans-Georg Moeller of the University of Macau has criticized the School's video on Lao Tzu, stating that it used fabricated quotes and misrepresented the Tao Te Ching.[11]
Jeffrey Howard praises the company for its critiques of romanticism and efforts to foster emotional intelligence using philosophy, and argues that The School of Life offers "self-help for those who might need a bit more engagement with the intellect to consider the complete living that comes with also employing our faculties that operate from the neck down."[12]
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