{"product_id":"the-epicurean-month-lee-barnett-9798253137840","title":"The Epicurean Month: On Money: The Philosophical Life Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost books about money tell you how to make more of it. This one asks whether more is actually what you need.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Epicurean Month: On Money\u003c\/i\u003e is a thirty-day philosophical inquiry into financial anxiety, manufactured desire, and the ancient question that turns out to be the most useful: what do you actually need, and do you already have it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach day brings a single question-genuinely open, worth sitting with-followed by a philosophical essay that thinks through the question using the moves that Epicurean philosophy characteristically makes. The philosophy is never the subject. Your relationship with money is the subject. Epicurus is simply the most useful thinking partner available for this particular territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver four weeks, the book moves through the full landscape of economic anxiety. The first week examines desire itself-the Epicurean distinction between natural needs and the manufactured wanting that an entire economy has been built to sustain. The second week honestly looks at financial anxiety: where it lives, what it is actually about, and why it persists despite every improvement in circumstances. The third week examines the hidden costs of the pursuit of financial security-what has been quietly traded away for a safety that keeps receding. The fourth week builds toward what Epicurus called the garden economy: a genuinely sufficient life organized around real pleasures, deep friendship, and the revolutionary discovery that enough is achievable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a self-help book. There are no action steps, no budgeting frameworks, no tips for optimizing your financial life. What it offers is a philosophical reorientation-the kind that changes how you see the problem rather than how you manage it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpicureanism is one of the most relevant and least known philosophies available to contemporary readers. In a market saturated with Stoicism, it offers something different: warmth instead of endurance, sufficiency instead of discipline, the garden instead of the battlefield. For readers who have found self-help books too shallow and philosophy books too dense, this series lives in the space between.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Epicurean Month: On Money\u003c\/i\u003e is the first volume in \u003cb\u003eThe Epicurean Month\u003c\/b\u003e series-each book will address concerns that most shape contemporary life, applying Epicurean philosophy to a different question.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou already have enough. You just can't feel it yet.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lee Barnett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798253137840\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.30d","brand":"Lee Barnett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874634543359,"sku":"9798253137840","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-epicurean-month-lee-barnett-9798253137840","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}