Three centuries ago, Voltaire published his Dictionnaire philosophique, taking in such idiosyncratic topics as adultery, mountains, nakedness, and others besides. In 1957, another French philosopher of more recent vintage, Roland Barthes, mused in his Mythologies on the masculine pursuits of wrestling, striptease and the Citroën DS. Since the dawn of philosophy, the world's great thinkers have been unable to resist the lure of applying their formidable brains not only to the meaning of life, but also to the meaning of coffee, trapped wind or efficient boiler installation. Now, from Wollstonecraft to Wittgenstein, Laozi to Locke, Aristotle to Arendt, Great Minds on Small Things brings together their varied observations, alongside delightful black and white illustrations, in a highly entertaining and eye-opening miscellany that is guaranteed to make life’s mundanities suddenly seem a lot more highbrow.
| ISBN: | 9780715654965 |
| Publication date: | 5th October 2023 |
| Author: | Matthew Qvortrup |
| Publisher: | Duckworth an imprint of Duckworth Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Genres: |
History of ideas Social and political philosophy Humour Non-Fiction Biography: philosophy and social sciences Ethics and moral philosophy Philosophy: logic Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy Western philosophy from c 1800 |