Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton (born December 20, 1969 in Zurich , Switzerland ) is a British- Swiss writer and television producer .
biography
Alain de Botton is the son of the banker Gilbert de Botton (1935–2000) and his first wife Jacqueline Burgauer. The marriage also has a daughter.
De Botton spent the first twelve years of his life in Switzerland, where his father worked for the Rothschild Bank . To 1990 he studied from 1988 History and Philosophy at Gonville and Caius College of the University of Cambridge and graduated in 1992 at King's College London with the degree of Master from in philosophy.
De Botton is the owner of the production company Seneca Productions , which produces documentaries based mainly on his own texts.
De Botton currently lives in London with his wife, whom he married in 2003, and their two sons, born in 2004 and 2006.
plant
In his essays and novels - written in English - Alain de Botton tries to transfer philosophical ideas for the reader to problems of the present and thereby make them understandable and topical. In more recent works he has repeatedly dealt with socio-political questions, such as the meaning of status and status fear in societies, the importance of architecture for the people living in it, or the meaning of work.
Botton writes regularly for English newspapers and goes on reading tours.
Awards
He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 2011 .
- Prix européen de l'essai Charles Veillon (2003) for L'Art du voyage , Mercure de France, Paris 2003.
Works (in German)
- Try about love . Novel. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-10-046310-2 .
- Romantic movement. Sex, shopping, romance . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-10-046311-0 .
- Isabel and her biographer . Novel. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 978-3100463142 .
- How Proust can change your life . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-10-046315-3 .
- Consolation of philosophy. An instruction manual . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001
- Art of travel . Translated from the English by Silvia Morawetz , S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-10-046318-8 .
- Status fear . Translated from the English by Chris Hirte, S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-10-046320-X .
- Happiness and architecture. The art of being at home at home . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2008
- Airport. A week at Heathrow . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2010
- How to properly think about sex. Small philosophy of the art of living . Kailash, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-424-63064-0 .
- Joys and toil of work . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-046322-7 .
- Religion for atheists. Of the benefits of religion for life . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-046327-2 .
- The news. An instruction manual . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-596-03246-4 .
- The course of love . Novel. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-002443-5 .
- Serenity. Time for a good life . Süddeutsche Zeitung (Verlag), Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-86497-444-1 .
- With John Armstrong: How Art Can Change Your Life . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-46801-2 .
Web links
- Publications by and about Alain de Botton in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Alain de Botton in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alain de Botton in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website by Alain de Botton (English)
- Author profile of the publisher S. Fischer
- Alain de Botton: The Destructive Power of Internet Pornography . Essay on Welt Online from January 25, 2012.
- Philosophy as a way of life: Alain de Botton and the new Church of the Philosophers . Essay on ORF.at from January 29, 2001.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Botton, Alain de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-Swiss writer and television producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th December 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |