{"id":33215,"date":"2025-01-08T11:33:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T16:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=33215"},"modified":"2025-01-08T15:04:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T20:04:34","slug":"cuttings-ninety-nine-essays-about-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=33215","title":{"rendered":"Cuttings: Ninety-Nine Essays About Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Cuttings<\/em> is a book in progress that consists of 99 essays about the inner life: about suffering, happiness, compassion, and related themes. I first posted each of the essays on this blog, which is 22 years old today and has accumulated more than 2,400 posts. I&#8217;ve selected the contents of <em>Cuttings<\/em> carefully from this archive, revised most of the essays substantially, and arranged them so that there is a small and meaningful step between each one. In the last three years, I have written some new posts to fill gaps that I perceive in the overall structure. I believe that the architecture is now pretty solid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michel de Montaigne is the hero; I seek to emulate his skeptical, curious, humane mind. Like Montaigne, I talk about books, but my library is different from his. <em>Cuttings<\/em> includes short essays about Montaigne himself, early Buddhist texts, Greek philosophers, Keats and Blake, Hopkins and Stevens, phenomenologists from Husserl to Merleau-Ponty, Arendt and Benjamin, and Hilary Mantel and Ann Carson, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am releasing the third edition today&#8211;a substantial revision from last year, but not yet the final one. You can find the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1JGRQqXim8VCCpSua0BN1pGqYQ6EeCsSWL6WUCu8yc00\/edit?usp=drive_web&amp;ouid=114252950930154464926\">book here as a Google doc<\/a>. I have also posted it <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1p7BxJKKK3hi6ACDF6Wxjz4a_L_yxPEdD\/view?usp=sharing\">as an .epub file<\/a>, which will open directly in many e-readers. Alternatively, you could download the .epub to a computer or phone and then use this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/sendtokindle\">Amazon page<\/a> to send it with one click to your own Kindle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, comments are welcome and really the best reward for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuttings is a book in progress that consists of 99 essays about the inner life: about suffering, happiness, compassion, and related themes. I first posted each of the essays on this blog, which is 22 years old today and has accumulated more than 2,400 posts. I&#8217;ve selected the contents of Cuttings carefully from this archive, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,29,50,5,1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buddhism","category-moral-network-mapping","category-greek-philosophy","category-philosophy","category-uncategorized","category-verse-and-worse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33215"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33363,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33215\/revisions\/33363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}