The Pleasure Of Philosophy By Will Durant"A Survey of Human Life and Destiny." Confession: This book, despite its gay new title, is a revised edition of The Mansions of Philosophy, which was published in 1929. Invitation: This book is an attempt at a consistent philosophy of life. It tries to do for the problems of philosophy what The Story of Philosophy sought to do for the personalities and systems of the major philosophers to make them intelligible by transparent speech, and to vitalize