{"product_id":"darwins-worms-adam-phillips-9780465056767","title":"Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories","description":"Adam Phillips has been called \"the psychotherapist of the floating world\" and \"the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness.\" His style is epigrammatic; his intelligence, electric. His new book, Darwin's Worms, uses the biographical details of Darwin's and Freud's lives to examine endings-suffering, mortality, extinction, and death. Both Freud and Darwin were interested in how destruction conserves life. They took their inspiration from fossils or from half-remembered dreams. Each told a story that has altered our perception of our lives. For Darwin, Phillips explains, \"the story to tell was how species can drift towards extinction; for Freud, the story was how the individual tended to, and tended towards his own death.\" In each case, it is a death story that uniquely illuminates the life story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Phillips\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0465056768\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780465056767\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/07\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.01h x 5.24w x 0.41d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/18\/2001 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/30\/2001 pg. 63","brand":"Adam Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990187868415,"sku":"9780465056767","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_afbd88ad-7b03-4c84-88e4-015e46768fa4.jpg?v=1683303496","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/darwins-worms-adam-phillips-9780465056767","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}