
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
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).