The School of Life

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The School of Life
Three 13 Solutions, Campus London LLP, ELOE Limited, STOA Limited. [1]
Founded2008;17 years ago (2008)
Founder Alain de Botton
Headquarters
London, England
Website www.theschooloflife.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The School of Life is a British multinational [2] social media company founded in 2008 by British author and public speaker Alain de Botton. [3] [4] The company is headquartered in London. [5] It publishes various materials dealing with the topics of anxiety management, [6] emotional intelligence, relationships, work, creativity, and spirituality.

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History

The School of Life was founded in 2008 [4] by a group of academics, including author Alain de Botton and curator, Sophie Howarth, along with a group of psychotherapists, artists, and educators. [7]

Publishing

As of 2016, The School of Life owns a publishing press named "The School of Life Press." [8]

Books

Criticism

The company has been criticized for its representations of philosophers and philosophical arguments. The Los Angeles Review of Books criticized a series of books by the School of Life as being a "vortex of jargon pitched somewhere between the banal banter of daytime talk shows and the schedule for a nightmarish New Age retreat." [10] Professor Hans-Georg Moeller of the University of Macau has criticized the School's video on Lao Tzu, stating that it used fabricated quotes and misrepresented the Tao Te Ching . [11]

Jeffrey Howard praises the company for its critiques of romanticism and efforts to foster emotional intelligence using philosophy, and argues that The School of Life offers "self-help for those who might need a bit more engagement with the intellect to consider the complete living that comes with also employing our faculties that operate from the neck down." [12]

References

  1. ↑ "Campus London LLP – Overview (free company information from Companies House)".
  2. ↑ "A Brief History of the School of Life". Happiness.com. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
  3. ↑ "The School of Life: An Interview With Alain de Botton". HuffPost . 12 May 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  4. 1 2 Wyndham, Susan (29 June 2016). "Alain de Botton and his School of Life come to Sydney". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Londoner's Diary: Alain De Botton and his school exit Europe". London Evening Standard . 10 April 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  6. ↑ Dynes, Robin (28 April 2017). "Preparing for Anxiety Management Training". Anxiety Management. pp. 1–18. doi:10.4324/9781315172941. ISBN   9781315172941.
  7. ↑ "Faculty". The School of Life. Archived from the original on 6 December 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  8. ↑ "The School of Life | Your Path to Mental Wellbeing". The School of Life. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  9. ↑ Dillon, Melanie (28 April 2024). "Big Ideas From Literature by The School of Life". School Reading List. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  10. ↑ Levy, Lisa (11 May 2013). "How To Think More (But Not Better): Alain de Botton's School of Life". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  11. ↑ WORSE Philosophy Videos! School of Life on Eastern Philosophy - Lao Tzu, 17 March 2021, archived from the original on 20 December 2021, retrieved 15 June 2021
  12. ↑ Howard, Jeffrey (2019). "'The School of Life' Preaches Pessimism Over Romanticism." Erraticus. Retrieved March 18, 2023.
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