A review by sam_bizar_wilcox
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton

2.0

The Marie Kondo of philosophy. Alain de Botton takes a similar space in the cultural sphere as Malcolm Gladwell: a public intellectual who makes sort of specious claims or explains relatively obvious phenomena. De Botton is a far more eloquent writer than Gladwell, of course. But that's not to excuse the relative lack of substance that The Consolations offer.