Plain Life
on thinking, feeling and deciding
$33.19
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2025
Summary
Embrace the Ordinary: Finding Peace in a Plain Life
These days, it’s easy to get the impression that people are very anxious. Friends, lovers, acquaintances, colleagues – the term is everywhere, applied willy-nilly.
What would it mean to live a plain life? Would it simply be an unambitious existence – drab, routine, without color, variation, unknowing, or luck? Or could a plain life be one where we fret less, suspect ourselves less, and listen to ourselves and others in new …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761170164 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1761170163 |
| Author: | Antonia Pont |
| Publisher: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Imprint: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 243mm x 137mm |
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About The Author
Antonia Pont
Antonia Pont is Associate Professor in Writing, Literature and Culture at Deakin University, Australia. She publishes poetry, fiction and essays as well as theoretical work across writing, literature, philosophy and the creative arts. Her research is concerned with time, habit, ethical capacity, thought, movement and transformation. She is the author of The Memory Library (Spineless Wonders, 2024), A Philosophy of Practising (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and a co-author of Practising with Deleuze (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). Her collection of poetry You Will Not Know in Advance What You’ll Feel was published in 2019. She is the founder of Vijnana Yoga Australia (2009-), where she continues to practise, teach and lead retreats. Her essays have appeared in Lit Hub, The Lifted Brow, Antithesis, Meanjin and Overland.
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