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Author Schaffner, Anna Katharina, author

Title The art of self-improvement : ten timeless truths / Anna Katharina Schaffner
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 265 pages)
Contents Know thyself -- Control your mind -- Let it go -- Be good -- Be humble -- Simplify -- Use your imagination -- Persevere -- Mentalize -- Be present
Summary Self-help today is a multi-billion-dollar global industry, one often seen as a by-product of neoliberalism and capitalism. Far from being a recent phenomenon, however, the practice of self-improvement has a long and rich history, extending all the way back to ancient China. For millennia, philosophers, sages, and theologians have reflected on the good life and devised strategies on how to achieve it. 0 0Focusing on ten core ideas of self-improvement that run through the world?s advice literature, Anna Katharina Schaffner reveals the ways they have evolved across cultures and historical eras, and why they continue to resonate with us today. Reminding us that there is much to learn from looking at time-honed models, Schaffner also examines the ways that self-improvement practices provide powerful barometers of the values, anxieties, and aspirations that preoccupy us at particular moments in time and expose basic assumptions about our purpose and nature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Conduct of life.
Self-help techniques.
Self-actualization (Psychology)
ethics (philosophical concept)
RELIGION / History.
Conduct of life
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Self-help techniques
Genre/Form History
Self-help publications.
Livres de croissance personnelle.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300262391
0300262396