On Right in a Wrong World
Essays in Classical Philosophical Praxis
Gerd B Achenbach author Dr Michael Picard translator
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:18th Feb '27
£85.00
This title is due to be published on 18th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
What can right still mean in a world gone wrong? Philosophical practice provides insight into how human life can be understood with a joyfulness that redeems the serious.
What can right still mean in a world gone wrong?
Gerd B. Achenbach is the founder of Philosophical Practice, now established across the world. Since opening the first Philosophical Practice in 1981, he has been advising and accompanying people in a wide variety of life situations and needs, creating a unique connection between the great traditions of philosophy and concrete life.
On Right in a Wrong World is the second book (after Philosophical Praxis: Origin, Relations, Legacy, 2024) to offer English-speaking readers the opportunity to discover Achenbach's life-oriented and life-affirming world of thought. The variegated chapters unveil a fascinating glimpse of the charms and challenges of human life that we are unable to embrace with self-righteous certainty but only, if at all, with a far-sighted forbearance, a joyfulness that redeems the serious.
Michael Picard offers a sensitive translation that brings out the intellectual and linguistic richness of the work while intimating the author's temperament. His careful editorial notes lend the text an enhanced transparency that facilitates and enlarges reader understanding.
“On Right in a Wrong World is a profound and timely work that reaffirms philosophy’s power to illuminate the human condition. Gerd B. Achenbach’s essays, rendered with sensitivity and precision in Michael Picard’s translation, invite readers to reflect on impermanence, contradiction, trust, humor, consolation, and aging—not as abstract problems, but as lived realities. With his signature concept of Lebenskönnerschaft, Achenbach shows that wisdom is not remote or austere, but cheerful, humane, and deeply engaged with everyday life. This book is a rare achievement: rigorous yet accessible, contemplative yet uplifting, offering guidance for all who fumble in the darkness for a way out.” * Balaganapathi Devarakonda, University of Delhi, India *
ISBN: 9781793651105
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182 pages