{"product_id":"darwins-worms-on-life-stories-and-death-stories-9780465056767","title":"Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Adam Phillips\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Philosophy \u0026amp; Social Aspects\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45355583340695,"sku":"9780465056767","price":1580.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780465056767.webp?v=1767308897","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/darwins-worms-on-life-stories-and-death-stories-9780465056767","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}