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Article: PHILOSOPHY; Not where to travel, but why; Alain de Botton offers a charming, philosophical approach to going away.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- July 28, 2002
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Byline: Randolph Delehanty
Special to the Star Tribune
British essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton's latest book exudes erudition and artfulness. Taking travel as his ostensible theme, de Botton gently instructs us about seeing, thinking and feeling.
De Botton is a smooth writer, a congenial companion and must be a superb teacher in the graduate philosophy program at London University. Americans know him best as the author of the unlikely 1998 bestseller "How Proust Can Change Your Life."
In "The Art of Travel," he offers an elegant essay on self-consciousness, and it makes a lot of learning go down easily.
"Journeys," De ...