Helen De Cruz

Danforth Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Saint Louis University

Helen De Cruz is professor of philosophy and Danforth Chair in the humanities at Saint Louis University in Missouri. Her books include Religious Disagreement (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Philosophy Illustrated: 42 Thought Experiments to Broaden Your Mind (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Wonderstruck: How Awe and Wonder Shape the Way We Think (Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2024).

Written by Helen De Cruz

Painting of a man relaxing against a large leafy tree in a grassy field.

How to be useless

Follow the Daoist way – reclaim your life and happiness by letting go of the need to produce, strive or serve a purpose

by Helen De Cruz & Pauline Lee