| This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life Contributor(s): Wallace, David Foster (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316068225 ISBN-13: 9780316068222 Publisher: Little Brown and Company OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: What is the actual, real-life value of education? In this pointedly observant examination of daily life, David Foster Wallace seeks an answer to this deceptively simple question. In doing so, he notes that, "the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about." In other words, to really understand the world, we have to get out of our own thoughts and learn to see what's right in front of us. With this, he touches on the most basic, most important decision we all make every day--"how" to think about our world. Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of casual humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Self-help | Motivational & Inspirational - Philosophy | Mind & Body |
| Dewey: 370.112 |
| LCCN: 2008051851 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 4.8" W x 6.6" (0.40 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this rare peak into the personal life of the author of numerous bestselling novels, gain an understanding of David Foster Wallace and how he became the man that he was. Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in This is Water. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend. Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading. |