Antonia Case

Flourish (eBook, ePUB)

The Extraordinary Journey Into Finding Your Best Self

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What is a meaningful life? What does it mean to flourish?

Antonia Case, the co-founder of New Philosopher and Womankind magazines, quits her corporate job in the city and, with her partner, travels across the world in search of meaning. In a quest to find answers, she turns off the soundtrack of the media, rids herself of technology, and with little more than books as carry-on luggage, she journeys from Buenos Aires to Paris, from Barcelona to Byron Bay, seeking guidance from ancient philosophers and modern-day psychologists on what is a good life, and what is a life worth living. Along the way she discovers why winning the lottery doesn't make you happy, why making is better than having, and how love and belonging are vital to our sense of selves.

Packed with insight into life's big questions, Flourish will take you on a riveting journey in search of what matters most.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472979742
• Artikelnr.: 67592199

Autorenporträt

Antonia Case is Editor of New Philosopher and Womankind magazines, and is an award-winning writer and journalist. Her book on personal identity and change, Flourish, was published by Bloomsbury Continuum in 2023. She was the winner of the 2014 Australasian Association of Philosophy Media Professionals' Award and in 2016 was shortlisted for Editor of the Year in the Stack Awards. Antonia was 'philosopher in residence' for the 2016 Brisbane Writers' Festival and speaks regularly on philosophy, technology, the media, and ethics. She was the co-founder and host of the monthly philosophical discussion series 'Bright Thinking'. New Philosopher and Womankind have won multiple awards around the world, including Stack Magazine's prestigious 'Magazine of the Decade' for New Philosopher in 2020. New Philosopher is distributed in 32 countries and is translated into Korean, Arabic, and Chinese.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1 Brisbane, Australia
2 Leaving Home
3 Buenos Aires, Argentina
4 Bariloche, Argentina
5 Ushuaia, Argentina
6 Chile
7 Peru
8 Baños, Ecuador
9 Panama
10 Nicaragua
11 Brisbane, Australia
12 Paris, France
13 Paris, France
14 Barcelona, Spain
15 Byron Bay, Australia
16 Byron Bay, Australia
17 Bangalow, Australia
18 Hobart, Tasmania
19 Ireland
20 Back Home
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Index

Rezensionen

Every now and then an epiphany comes along in the form of a book. Are we being who we secretly thought we could be? Is life being the adventure it promised? Flourish is a road trip, an odyssey and a quest in the company of thinkers, not by a guru but by someone who with gleeful bravery walked out of the office and went to find their freedom. The time is right for this kind of quest, the time is right for these philosophies - and I found it right for the sweet kick in the backside this book gave me.