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Happiness

Everything You Need to Know About It and Why It Is Not The Most Important Thing in Life
Suhrkamp | Insel
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Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Lindhardt & Ringhof / Saga Egmont)


Happiness / Glück
Everything You Need to Know About It and Why It Is Not The Most Important Thing in Life
More than 200.000 copies sold
Simply to be happy is evidently no mean task. In his new book, Wilhelm Schmid contemplates what constitutes happiness, what philosophy can contribute to the question, and what we can and must ourselves do. He focuses on an intellectual stance that we need take toward life; the art of accepting not only the highs but also the lows in life and to recognize meaning and linkages with all our senses.


What is happiness? It is a question that does not leave us in peace. Could...
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Simply to be happy is evidently no mean task. In his new book, Wilhelm Schmid contemplates what constitutes happiness, what philosophy can contribute to the question, and what we can and must ourselves do. He focuses on an intellectual stance that we need take toward life; the art of accepting not only the highs but also the lows in life and to recognize meaning and linkages with all our senses.


What is happiness? It is a question that does not leave us in peace. Could it not be that precisely the constant hunt for happiness makes us unhappy? For happiness is nothing more than a word. What is decisive is what it is used to describe, what meaning the word is given that refers not only to »happiness« in the singular. In his new book, as a philosopher of the art of life Wilhelm Schmid studies the plethora of meanings more closely and how happiness relates to chance, to feeling good, to a wealth of opportunities, to being unhappy. Schmid counters the prophets of happiness who offer smart advice on how to be happy wherever you are and whoever you are by saying that happiness merely stands in for the more important question of what the »meaning« of it all is. But if meaning is no longer available in its own guise then it becomes a bit of an effort finding meaning and justifying it.

 

Selected Foreign Editions

 

Spanish edition released by Pre-Textos >>
 

Chinese simplex edition released by Shanghai Translation Publishing
 

French edition released by Autrement >>
 

Italian edition released by Fazi >>
 

Dutch edition released by Ambo/Anthos >>
 

Danish edition released by Informations Forlag >>
 

Finnish edition released by Ajatus >>
 

Korean edition released by Bookstory >>
 

Estonian edition released by Olion
 

Latvian edition released by Zvaigzne ABC
 

2007, 79 pages
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Wilhelm Schmid was born in 1953 and lives in Berlin.  For many years, he taught philosophy at the University of Erfurt, was a visiting porfessor in Riga, Latvia, and Tbilisi, Georgia, and worked as a »philosophical counsellor« at a hospital near Zurich, Switzerland. He is a popular guest speaker and has been giving lectures in China and South Korea since 2010. He was awarded the Meckatzer Prize for Philosophy in 2012 and the Egnér Prize in 2013. His works have been translated into 25 languages, and his bestselling book Gelassenheit has sold over 600,000 copies.

Wilhelm Schmid was born in 1953 and lives in Berlin.  For many years, he taught philosophy at the University of Erfurt, was a...


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Korea (Fika Book), Turkey (Iletisim)

Finding a Place to Call Home
Year of Publication: 2021
Wilhelm SchmidYear of Publication: 2021

More and more, people are on the search for a place to call home in a world that seems uncertain and within a life that changes faster than it can be understood. More than ever even those who normally have a comfortable home find themselves faced with the lack thereof. Home becomes a fleeting commodity in an era in which people and things are becoming global.


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Year of Publication: 2019
Wilhelm SchmidYear of Publication: 2019

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Turkey (Iletisim)

Self-Acceptance
Year of Publication: 2018
Wilhelm SchmidYear of Publication: 2018

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France (Piranha), Turkey (Iletisim)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV)

Giving And Receiving Gifts
Year of Publication: 2017
Wilhelm SchmidYear of Publication: 2017

Giving gifts is not as easy as it looks. People often ask themselves: What shall I give to whom and why? A few thoughts on the subject guarantee that giving can make both parties happy. The...

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Turkey (Iletisim)

Understanding Life
Year of Publication: 2016
Wilhelm SchmidYear of Publication: 2016

Wilhelm Schmid, best-selling author of Happiness and What We Gain As We Grow Older, was given the opportunity to apply his ideas on founding a philosophical art of living over the course of ten years at a hospital near Zurich, where he discussed the following questions with the patients: What meaning do touches, habits, longings, beauty have? What is happiness? Does one’s own...

On the Joy of Being a Parent and Grandparent
Year of Publication: 2016
Wilhelm SchmidYear of Publication: 2016

Wilhelm Schmid, best-selling author of Happiness and What We Gain As We Grow Older, shows how much life with children can contribute to a meaningful existence. Furthermore, he offers suggestions as to how the children’s resilience, their ability to be self-assertive, can be nurtured.


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Sexout
Year of Publication: 2015
Wilhelm SchmidYear of Publication: 2015
»Sex is fun!« More and more people – young and old – don’t know what to do with this constantly reiterated phrase anymore, because their experience is entirely different from what it...
Rights sold to:

Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Turkey (Iletisim)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Fazi)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV)

What We Gain as We Grow Older
Year of Publication: 2014
Wilhelm SchmidYear of Publication: 2014
Bestselling author Wilhelm Schmid (Happiness) doesn’t want to praise or disparage growing older, but rather to develop a pragmatic art of dealing with it: on the one hand...
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English world rights (Upper Westside Philosophers), Russia (Directmedia), Portuguese rights (Penguin Random House/Objectiva), France (Piranha), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Denmark (Informations Forlag), Danish audio book rights (Lindhardt & Ringhof), Sweden (Lind & Co.), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Aula & Co.), Korea (Chaek Se Sang), Japan (Mikasa Shobo), Poland (W.A.B.), Czech Republic (Euromedia), Serbia (Laguna), Latvia (Zvaigzne), Turkey (Iletisim), Ukraine (Knihy XXI), India (Malayalam, Sahitya Pravarthaka), Israel (Modan)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Kairos), Catalan rights (Angle), Chinese complex rights (Emily Publishing Co.), Italy (Fazi), Slovenia (Narava)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German Book Club (Club Bertelsmann)

Giving Life Meaning
Year of Publication: 2013
Wilhelm SchmidYear of Publication: 2013
More and more people are in search of meaning. But why? And where might they look to find it?
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Unhappiness
Year of Publication: 2012
Wilhelm SchmidYear of Publication: 2012
A guide to learning how to leave enough room for unhappiness, with plenty of comfort-ing examples and facts.


It seems everything has already been said about happiness. But...
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English world rights (Upper West Side Philosophers), Netherlands (Ambo/Anthos), Turkey (Iletisim)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Komplett Media)

Love
Year of Publication: 2011
Wilhelm SchmidYear of Publication: 2011
In his new guide, bestselling author Wilhelm Schmid shows the way to experience success and fulfillment in love. Amusing and easy to read, yet at times very personal, he shares insights into love,...
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Netherlands (Ambo/Anthos), Denmark (Informations Forlag), Danish Audiobook Rights (Lindhardt & Ringhof), Latvia (Zvaigzne), Turkey (Iletisim)

Re-inventing Love
Year of Publication: 2010
Wilhelm SchmidYear of Publication: 2010
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Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai Translation Publishing House), Netherlands (Ambo/Anthos)

Beautiful Life?
Year of Publication: 2005
Wilhelm SchmidYear of Publication: 2005
The »Art of Life«? The absence of any such art is the very thing which characterizes modern life, lacking as it is in any sense of leisureliness.


The author's aim is not to bemoan this state...
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Italy (Apogeo), Netherlands (Ambo|Anthos), Korea (Chaek Se Sang), Latvia (Zvaigzne), Georgia (Akolasia)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Serbia (Svetovi)

The Art of Balance
Year of Publication: 2005
Wilhelm SchmidYear of Publication: 2005

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Italy (Fazi), Netherlands (Ambo/Anthos), Latvia (Zvaigzne Abc)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Lindhardt & Ringhof / Saga Egmont)
To Be Friends With Ourselves
Year of Publication: 2004
Wilhelm SchmidYear of Publication: 2004
We ourselves have become the weakest link in our society. We seem to have lost ourselves; our very self in our so-called advanced and liberated societies.


The...
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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Fazi), Netherlands (Ambo|Anthos)

Philosophie der Lebenskunst
Year of Publication: 1998
Wilhelm SchmidYear of Publication: 1998

Rights sold to:

Spanish world rights (Pre-Textos), Italy (Fazi), Netherlands (Ambo/Anthos)


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