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Alain de Botton: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009 "It has become as impossible for us to think that you could be out of work and happy as it had once seemed impossible for Aristotle to think that you could be employed and human." —Alain de Botton Why do we work? How can we make work more bearable? How can it be part of a meaningful life? These questions motivated Alain de Botton to investigate the nature of work, spending two years with a documentary photographer to create his new book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work. |
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In this Zócalo Public Square lecture, de Botton comes to the Getty Center for a thought-provoking discussion of work and of his book, a guide to the vicious anxieties and enticing hopes created by our journey through the working world—and by our belief that work defines who we are. |
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