The Examined Life

Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations

かつてロバート・ノージックにも同名タイトルの本がありました（邦題は『生のなかの螺旋』、まるで遺伝子のイメージです）。

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

http://usa.stephengrosz.com/the-examined-life-2/

The Examined Life

http://www.blackstonelibrary.com/the-examined-life
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/25/examined-life-stephen-grosz-review
こちらは最近出たばかりの本。
著者は先週のBBCラジオPrivate PassionのゲストStephen Grosz。

http://www.stephengrosz.com/stephen-grosz/

Stephen Grosz waited until he was 60 to publish his first book, 'The Examined Life'. It was a huge overnight success - a best-seller here in Britain and translated into more than 20 languages across the world. It's a distillation of the lifetime he has spent as a psychoanalyst, tens of thousands of hours listening to people in hospitals, forensic clinics and in private practice. It reads like a collection of short stories, full of vignettes of memorable characters: the man who faked his own death, the pathological liar, the lovesick middle-aged woman who meets a man at a party - and turns up at his house the next week with a removals van to move in with him.

In Private Passions, in conversation with Michael Berkeley, Stephen Grosz tells his own story: his childhood in Chicago, the son of immigrants who ran a grocery store; student days in radical Berkeley; and now, settled in Britain, how he's facing the challenges of fatherhood and ageing. Music has played an important part right from the beginning, and Grosz admits that his choice of music is very psychologically revealing.

His musical choices include Scarlatti, Aaron Copland, Brahms's 3rd Symphony, gospel singer Bessie Jones, Schubert's Piano Sonata no 20, Bob Dylan - and a hilarious Alberta Hunter song about sex, My Handy Man Ain't Handy No More.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04cb6xk