Damon Young Books

This insightful guide reveals the profound thoughts and ideas for living discovered by eleven famous writers in parks, backyards and pot-plants, making it a colourful yet philosophical companion to the garden's toils and joys.

The book skillfully integrates the profound concepts of philosophy into everyday experiences, making them accessible and relevant. With warmth and humor, it invites readers to explore philosophical ideas and their practical applications in life. The author, a fresh and engaging voice, offers insights that encourage reflection and personal growth.

For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. The act of possessing black skin while searching for space to breathe in America is enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst where questions such as "How should I react here, as a professional black person?" and "Will this white person's potato salad kill me?" are forever relevant. What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker chronicles Young's efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him

Why did Marcel Proust have bonsai beside his bed? What was Jane Austen doing, coveting an apricot? How was Friedrich Nietzsche inspired by his 'thought tree'? In Philosophy in the Garden, Damon Young explores one of literature's most intimate relationships: authors and their gardens. For some, the garden provided a retreat from workaday labour; for others, solitude's quiet counsel. For all, it played a philosophical role: giving their ideas a new life. Philosophy in the Gardenreveals the profound thoughts discovered in parks, backyards, and pot-plants. It does not provide tips for mowing overgrown couch grass, or mulching a dry Japanese maple. It is a philosophical companion to the garden's labours and joys.

The curious reader's companion to sex. 'Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas.' Samuel Johnson Why is screwing so funny? How should we think about our most shocking fantasies? What is so captivating about nudity? Inspired by philosophy, literature, and private life, Damon Young explores the paradoxes of the bedroom. On Getting Offwill f**k with your mind.

A look at how and why exercise affects the way we think and feel

"In The Art of Reading, philosopher Damon Young delights in the pleasures of this intimate pursuit through a rich sample of literature: from Virginia Woolf's diaries to Batman comics. He writes with honesty and humour about the blunders and revelations of his own bookish life. Devoting each chapter to a literary virtue - patience, curiosity, courage, pride, temperance, justice - The Art of Reading celebrates the reader's power: to turn hieroglyphics into a lifelong adventure."--Publisher.

Every child fears what's waiting for them in the dark. But Sidney Greenwell has seen it, and what's worse is that IT has seen him. He's been hiding in the light from it ever since. As an adult who sleeps under floodlights on a mattress without a bedframe, Sydney is a shell of a man. Until the day that the shadows come for the rest of his family. That day, Sydney must finally face the darkness. And the darknes is waiting

Gärten können inspirieren, beruhigen und aufrichten. Und sie haben seit jeher einen besonderen Stellenwert für Künstler. Jane Austen suchte in ihrem Cottage-Garten nach Momenten der Stille. Für Marcel Proust, der seine letzten Lebensjahre bei geschlossenen Fensterläden in seinem Schlafzimmer verbrachte, hießen drei Bonsaibäumchen Inspiration, und die als skandalös geltende französische Schriftstellerin Colette verspürte beim Anblick ihrer Rosen ein Gefühl von Frieden und Glück. Damon Young erforscht wunderbar anregend das besondere Verhältnis zwischen Schreibenden und ihren Gärten – als spazierte man mit einem sehr klugen Freund durch einen wunderschönen Garten.