On Balance

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“Balancing acts,” writes Adam Phillips, “are entertaining because they are risky, but there are situations in which it is more dangerous to keep your balance than to lose it.” In these exhilarating and casually brilliant essays, the philosopher and psychoanalyst examines literature, fairy tales, works of art, and case studies to reveal the paradoxes inherent in our appetites and fears. How do we know when enough is enough? Are there times when too much is just right? Why is Cinderella’s biggest problem not the prince but other women? What can Richard III’s furious sense of his own helplessness tell us of our own desires? On Balance shows Phillips’s bravura gift for linking disparate ideas and the dreamers that dreamed them into something beautiful, revelatory, and essential.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003R0LBTE
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 31, 2010
Edition ‏ : ‎ First
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2.2 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 338 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1429979061
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #592,009 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #118 in Humanism Philosophy #433 in Consciousness & Thought (Kindle Store) #947 in Consciousness & Thought Philosophy
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