"Life on the Rocks: Finding Meaning in Addiction and Recover"

Special Guest: Peg O'Connor, PHd

An indispensable guide to the deeply philosophical concerns at the heart of every addict's struggle. Life on the Rocks: Finding Meaning in Addiction and Recovery is the first book to address addiction and recovery from a Western philosophical perspective, offering a powerful set of tools sharpened over millennia.

Assuming no prior familiarity with the subject, O'Connor draws upon the wisdom of the whole philosophical tradition from Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, to Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein, illuminating issues all addicts and their loved ones face: self-identity, moral responsibility, self-knowledge and self-deception, free will and determinism, fatalism, the nature of God, and their relations to others.