Midlife (Princeton University Press)

How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth$477 How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the prospect of death that blights the future$478 In this self-help book with a difference, Kieran Setiya confronts the inevitable challenges of adulthood and middle age, showing how philosophy can help you thrive.

Ranging from Aristotle, Schopenhauer, and John Stuart Mill to Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir, as well as drawing on Setiya's own experience, Midlife combines imaginative ideas, surprising insights, and practical advice.

Writing with wisdom and wit, Setiya makes a wry but passionate case for philosophy as a guide to life.