{"product_id":"9780786748617","title":"Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories","description":"Adam 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.","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123746226416,"sku":"9780786748617","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780786748617_p0.jpg?v=1763667216","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780786748617","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}