Kenilworth Books is pleased to sponsor…
‘Breakfast With Socrates : The Philosophy of Everyday Life’
a talk by Robert Rowland Smith
Thursday 13th May 2010, 08:30 am (Ticket price £10 – includes breakfast)
at The Holiday Inn, Abbey End Kenilworth
Can Nietzche improve your commute?
What would Freud think about your retail therapy?
And what would Plato say about the way that you read books?
In ‘Breakfast with Socrates: The Philosophy of Everyday Life’, Robert Rowland Smith will explain what history’s greatest thinkers would have said about everything we do each day, from heading to work through going to the gym, making dinner, and falling back to sleep. We rarely think about how our everyday activities relate to wider ideas about the world, but Robert will illuminate the connections with wit, warmth and authority.
Robert is the author of the book ‘Breakfast with Socrates: The Philosophy of Everyday Life’ which has become an international best seller and in his talk, as in his book, he will take us through an ordinary day in the company of some extraordinary ideas. Drawing on philosophy, literature, politics and psychology he will show how your everyday life can be improved by considering the world’s most interesting ideas.
Appropriately Robert will discuss these everyday scenarios over breakfast on Thursday 13th May in a talk organised by Kenilworth Books for the Kenilworth Festival. Robert was for seven years a Prize Fellow at All Souls College Oxford, and he now advises blue-chip companies and government departments. His work has been described by the great philosopher Jacques Derrida as ‘superbe’. This one-off event is not to be missed.
Breakfast and the talk will be at The Holiday Inn, Kenilworth at 8.00 am. Copies of Robert’s book will be on sale at the talk and may be signed by the author.
Tickets, priced at £10, include tea/coffee and bacon rolls and can be purchased from www.kenilworthfestival.co.uk, by telephoning 0845 680 1926 or calling into Kenilworth Books in Talisman.
