Life is tougher. Setiya K.

If you are not easy - you are not alone in this. In the book “Life is tougher”, the American philosopher Kiran Setiya on personal examples tells how we are faced with physical pain, grief because of the loss of loved ones, the feeling that every day is the worst and nothing can be changed. But you should not despair.

Calling Aristotle and Kant, Theodore Adorno and Simon Weil, as well as the impressive corps of world literature, art and science, Chetia thinks how ancient and modern rituals help to cope with grief, like sports managers and prince Myshkin can wean to evaluate themselves in the categories of success and why there is always the point of working and creating always, even if we are doomed to extinction. Setia’s book is a good help for those who are looking for ways to live with dignity in the imperfect world.