What aspects of religion should atheists adopt? Alain de Botton suggests a "religion for atheists" that incorporates religious forms and traditions to satisfy our human need for connection, ritual, ...

In posting this angry message, Mr. de Botton joined the novelist Alice Hoffman in the unhappy ranks of authors who have lately given into the temptation of lashing out at critics publicly over a bad ...

Philosopher Alain de Botton says it’s time for those who believe in religion and those who don’t to stop denigrating each other and find common ground on art, community and morality. Alain De Botton ...

Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project - a joyful, democratically-minded concept to share quality architecture in the UK - was borne out of personal crisis. The Swiss-born philosopher and ...

Philosophers are as important to brands and businesses as strategists or IT experts. That’s the view of writer and philosopher Alain De Botton, who along with his colleagues at the philosophy center ...

Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The new book “Art As Therapy” (Phaidon Press, $39.95) suggests radical ideas about how we might appreciate and view art. Authors Alain de Botton and John ...