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"Learning to live with one's own aging is the new task: making an art of what once was a given--growing older; turning our society's anti-aging bias into a true art of aging that will enable us to live with rather than against the inevitable. In ten practical steps, this book teaches you how to welcome and embrace growing older with gelassenheit ('gue-láh-sen-hite') - the 'feeling and the knowledge that we are cradled in the arms of infinity'--at any age."--Amazon.com.

Is not being happy really so bad? In HIGH ON LOW: HARNESSING THE POWER OF UNHAPPINESS, bestselling author Wilhelm Schmid persuasively argues that far from preventing us from living a full and successful life, being unhappy - be it in terms of discontent, melancholy, sadness, or depressive mood - is an inherent part of a well-rounded, active, and creative life. Rather than attempting to treat unhappiness as an unwelcome interloper on our perpetual quest for happiness, we should, Schmid suggests, draw on and harness the very power of not being happy.

Jacob Brucker (1696-1770) gilt kategorial und institutionell als der wichtigste Historiker der Philosophie im 18. Jahrhundert, wenn nicht der Philosophiegeschichte überhaupt. Die Essays des Bandes beleuchten facettenreich das Wirken des großen Wissenschaftlers und engagierten Pfarrherrn mit besonderem Akzent auf dessen Leistungen in der Tradition und Transformation des abendländischen philosophischen Erbes. Brucker erhält hier den Stellenwert, den er im westlichen Ausland längst innehat.