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 ...

Tim Leberecht is Frog Design's chief marketing officer. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. For one week, Swiss author Alain de Botton was living the life I've ...

Take that JFK. London’s Heathrow airport has a famous author as writer-in-residence. Alain de Botton, whose books include the treasured “The Art of Travel,” is using Terminal 5 as homebase while ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In August 2009, Alain de Botton — author of “How Proust Can Save Your ...

The inner life of the 21st century airport. Philosopher Alain de Botton talks about air travel and the human soul. Plus, a check-in on the Yemen package scare. London's Heathrow Airport, April ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: Alain de Botton is a writer, philosopher, television presenter and entrepreneur. His most recent book is called “The News: A User’s Manual”, a study of the effects of the news on modern ...

Alain de Botton knows something about work. He’s written books on travel, on architecture, on philosophy, on love, on literature -- nine altogether, at a clip of one every 22 months. No topic is too ...

The most sincere compliment you could pay Zurich is to describe it as one of the great bourgeois cities of the world. This might not, of course, seem like a compliment—the word "bourgeois" having ...