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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Liveright; Reissue edition (March 17, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0871401622
  • ISBN-13: 978-0871401625
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
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ONE OF RUSSELL’S BOOKS WRITTEN FOR A “POPULAR” AUDIENCE
By Steven H Propp TOP 100 REVIEWER on January 25, 2015
Format: Hardcover
Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970) was an influential British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and political activist. In 1950, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in recognition of his many books such as A History of Western Philosophy, The Problems of Philosophy, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, The Analysis of Mind, Our Knowledge of the External World, Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits, Mysticism and Logic, etc.

[NOTE: page numbers below refer to the 249-page hardcover edition.]

He wrote in the Preface to this 1930 book, “This book is not addressed to highbrows, or to those who regard a practical problem merely as something to be talked about. No profound philosophy or deep erudition will be found in the following pages.Read more ›
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Self-help from the 1930's...
By John P. Jones III TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on January 9, 2015
Format: Paperback
Bertrand Russell was one of those wonderful polymaths of the British "ruling class" whose productive life was the antithesis of the all-too-often incestuous and philandering lifestyle of the "idle" rich. He is best known as both a mathematician and philosopher, but was also an outspoken social critic and activist who was jailed for his pacifist political activity during the First World War. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950. And he had a full life, dying at 97, in 1970. I first became acquainted with his work by reading Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects in the 1960's, and read one of his two magnum opus, The History of Western Philosophy in the 1970's. My 50 cent copy of "The Conquest of Happiness," purchased new in the `60's, has lain on my (varying) bookshelves, unread for half a century. Figured remedying that deficiency was long overdue.

Russell wrote this 150 page "thesis" on a critical aspect of the human condition in 1930. Many of his observations are at least as relevant today, as then. The book is divided into two parts: the causes of unhappiness and the causes of happiness. He defines the scope of his review early on. He eliminates from his review all the "obvious" reasons for unhappiness: poor health, inadequate food and shelter, the loss of a loved one.Read more ›
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
A wonderful book with plenty of specific advice for living a harmonous, happy life
By A.J. on March 4, 2012
Format: Paperback
This is a great book, and I think I will be rereading if many times
in the coming years.

The book is both a great joy to read, thanks
to Russell's great talent for writing, and contains a lot of views upon
life that I had not really thought much about myself. Russell proposes
interesting ideas such that long periods of boredom are useful for a happy
life, etc.

A summary of the chapters :

Chapter 1 What makes people unhappy? --------------

Here Russell sets the stage by describing how many people in modern society (although it
was only 1930 when the book was written) seem to be quite unhappy. Here, and also
later, there are suggestions by him that our modern agglomorations in crowded cities,
and other aspects of life in modern society, are partially the cause of this.

He also gives us a first taste of the major theme for his remedies in later chapters :
to achieve happiness one should focus on the external world and not so much on
oneself. As he writes, "interest in oneself leads to no activity of a progressive kind."

One of his other themes throughout the book is that unhappiness can often be
caused by an excess of some desire of which it is normal and good to have
some measure. He mentions some rather extreme personality types that are destined to go down the
unhappiness drain : the narcissist (excessive concern about oneself), the fake
success seeker (engaging in activities where there is no genuine interest), and the
power-hungry psychopath (who never gets satisfied).Read more ›
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