کتاب فیلسوفان مرده

by Simon Critchley, عباس مخبر (Translator)

این کتاب به ما می‌گوید که فلاسفه چگونه مرده‌اند و در زمینه‌ی نگرش مناسب در قبال مرگ و مردن، چه چیزهایی را می‌توانیم از فلسفه یاد بگیریم. کریچلی می‌گوید امید من توفیق در بازتاباندن گفته‌ی آغازین مونتنی یعنی «ثبت انواع مرگ‌ها همراه با حاشیه‌نویسی است». شرط می‌بندم که با یادگیری چگونه مردن می‌توانیم به چگونه زندگی کردن بیندیشیم.

کتاب شامل مدخل‌هایی کوتاه و گاه بسیار کوتاه درباره‌ی فیلسوفان مختلف است که شیوه‌ی مرگ آن‌ها را باز می‌گوید و غالباً این شیوه‌ها را با اندیشه‌های محوری آن‌ها مرتبط می‌کند.

این مدخل‌ها را می‌توان از آغاز تا پایان به‌طور منظم یا به صورت گلچین خواند. چنانچه از آغاز تا پایان خوانده شود، مجموعه‌ی انباشت‌شونده‌ای از مضمون‌ها پدیدار شوند، که بر نقش فلسفه در یاد دادن چگونه مردن و چگونه زندگی کردن چیزی بیفزاید.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, History, Death, Biography, Essays, Humor

366 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Simon Critchley (born 27 February 1960 in Hertfordshire) is an English philosopher currently teaching at The New School. He works in continental philosophy. Critchley argues that philosophy commences in disappointment, either religious or political. These two axes may be said largely to inform his published work: religious disappointment raises the question of meaning and has to, as he sees it, deal with the problem of nihilism; political disappointment provokes the question of justice and raises the need for a coherent ethics [...]

Reviews

[Greg · Rating 4 out of 5]

At work a semi-common (meaning I get the question a few times a year) question that gets sent my way is something like, "I want an introduction to philosophy". I don't like this question very much. Most people who are asking it have no background in philosophy and they are looking for one quick book that will teach them everything they need to know. Sometimes they want this one book to have original writings by philosophers, but just the essential stuff, along with easy to understand little commentaries to explain it all to them. Most of the people who have asked me this question (or more likely have been sent to me to answer this question, since this is my supposed area of expertise) I'm sure are well meaning people who are looking to learn something about philosophy but have no idea where to start (or in the case of one particular man who wanted a book that would just tell him the meaning of life, but in a small compact book).

I don't like this question because there isn't a good answer to it. Most people don't care for my standard answer, which is to read Sophie's World, a YA novel about the history of philosophy. I personally think this is a great introduction to philosophy, and I wish I had read it a few years before I did when I had first started my erratic reading of various philosophers. My second and third recommendations are Copleston's seven or eight volume history of western philosophy collection, which I'm sure is quite good, even if I have only read parts of two of the volumes, and the encyclopedia of philosophy edited by Robert Audi, an invaluable collection of short essays on just about any topic one can think of in philosophy. This book many times in my student days helped me out by giving me enough of a background in something being mentioned in a book to have at least some idea of what the writer was saying.

Why all of this blah blah blah? Because I think I might be adding this book to my weak and disappointing arsenal of books to give to people who want a bit of an overview of philosophy. Maybe they won't learn too much from this book about actual philosophy (there is sort of an understanding in the book that the reader kind of knows something already, but not an alienating understanding), but they will be given fun anecdotal stories about a whole slew of philosophers, and at least get their palates whetted for where they might want to start their own reading. It will also expose them to the reality that there are no answers in philosophy, just a whole bunch of questions that in all likely hood one would be a healthier person not to think about.

The book itself is a lot of fun to read, it's kind of like an In Touch magazine special issue on the intellectual celebrities from the past twenty six hundred years (or so). You get lots of juicy little details about philosophers, you get lots of deaths, some of them mundane, some of them spectacular and even some improbable. You get to learn details of philosophers lives that you would never imagine. For example, did you know that Spinoza liked to train spiders to fight each other, and apparently one of his favorite pastimes was watching them fight. Or that Nietzsche was coprophagic? Do you even know what coprophagic is? Well I didn't, and neither does my spell checker. It means that he drank his own urine and ate his own shit. Wow!!!! Who would have thought. I also didn't know that Wagner had written to Nietzsche's doctors with his own opinion about the philosopher's breakdown, apparently Wagner was the opinion that Nietzsche suffered from his nervous breakdown because of excessive masturbation (which leads me to wonder who Wagner would know this, did they talk about beating off? Can you picture in your mind the giant of German opera discussing how he jerks off with the melancholy philosopher? Or maybe did Wagner walk in on Nietzsche doing it? So many questions, volume 2 please, I propose the title to be The Book of Auto-Erotic Philosophers).

My complaint about the book is that there is no entry for Cioran, maybe not a major philosopher (but seriously there are quite a few non Rock Stars here), but really a central one when you want to talk about death and at least writing that is aimed directly at not wanting to live anymore in the world (yes I could have said suicide). I would have liked to seen him represented, but I guess one can't have everything they would like.

[hayatem · Rating 5 out of 5]

يعرّف أفلاطون وسقراط الموت على أنه الفصل النهائي بين الروح والجسد. إنهم يعتبرون الجسد سجنًا للروح ويعتبرون الموت وسيلة حرية الروح.

……،"مات سقراط موتا بطيئا وقد غطى وجهه تماما، ربما ليحجب عن نظره صورة أولئك الذين قتلوه دون ذنب. يروى أنه بالرغم من أن تلميذه النجيب أفلاطون لم يحضر إعدامه، إلا أنه كتب عقب وفاة معلمه العزيز سقراط قائلا: "كل الفلسفة تمرين على الموت"."

كتاب يروي من خلاله كريتشلي حكاية الموت مع الفلاسفة، وأثر الفلسفة التحويلي في حياة البعض منهم. ومرام كريتشلي من هذا العمل كما يذكر بيان أن أعظم أعمال الفيلسوف الفنية-عادةً -الهيئة التي مات عليها. وهي أمثولات جديرة بالتأمل.

……"توجد أدلة تشير إلى أن فرويد نفسه كان يتوق إلى الموت. فبعدما أغمي عليه في ميونخ عام 1912 كانت كلماته الأولى حين استعاد وعيه: "ما ألذ أن نموت."؛ فيما يقول (شوبنهور) أيضاً إنّ الموت هو الموضوع الرئيس للفلسفة والمُلِهم الأكبر للتفكير الفلسفي."

يتطرق الكاتب ولو بالنزر اليسير إلى سير بعض من الفلاسفة والمفكرين، من الفلسفة ما قبل اليونانية إلى الفلسفة الحديثة، بما فيها مفاهيمهم الفلسفية وأثرهم في زمانهم، و آراء أو تصورات -(توضح الموت في فكر الفلاسفة.) وطبيعة فهمه "الفيلسوف" للموت.
كما يتعرض كريتشلي لظروف موتهم منذ الحقب القديمة حتى العصر الراهن. وهو يروي بشكل غير مباشر عن علاقتنا بالموت أو تراثنا الفكري الجمعي الواعي عنه بما به هواجسنا. ويثير بالذهن عدة تساؤلات من بينها: ما معنى أن تكون على القيد الحياة؟، أي نوع من الحياة؟ وأيضاً من أجل أية غاية؟ وحول ما إذا كانت الحياة الطويلة للغاية، حتى الخلود، ستكون مفيدة لنا؟ وهل نحن حقاً متصالحين مع فكرة الموت؟

الموت والخلود من القضايا الفلسفية الكبرى التي شغلت حيزاً كبيراً من تفكير الفلاسفة والمفكرين على مر العصور، كما أنه من الاشتغالات الفكرية الإشكالية في الديانات باختلافها، والبشرية جمعاء بوجه خاص.

ترجمة إبراهيم الكلثم رائعة كعادته.

[Jonfaith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Strange as it might sound, my constant concern in these seemingly morbid pages is the meaning and possibility of happiness.

This book harbored such high expectations for me, ones that sadly weren't met. Critchely dazzled me with his book on Political Theology and i turned to this appropriately whetted. The approach here lacked rigor and offered instead a popular history of philosophy through 190 vignettes of central figures. A brief segue into ancient Chinese philosophy and the inclusion of a half dozen relatively obscure women (outside of their more famous female authors) felt cobbled, a PC postscript. What was intriguing was the reverberation of certain thinkers. One thinks of Derrida and Foucault both reading Seneca at their end of their lives. Schopenhauer and Marx died in easy chairs (Melreau-Ponty was apparently reading Descartes) and Deleuze threw himself out of a window.

One further inecluctable truth remains: Heidegger made bad choices. It was the experience of Husserl and Levinas to bear witness to such. Simone Weil's response was medieval and sublime.

[پوریا حسنی · Rating 4 out of 5]

به قول خود نويسنده سايمون كريچلي اين كتاب مدخل خوبي براي علاقه مندان به فلسفه هستد و سرنخ هاي خوبي ارائه ميده و همچنين سرگرم كننده هست. نامتعادل هست و نميشه هميشه بهش اعتماد كرد! اما كتاب خوبي بود براي كساني كه علاقه مند به كار در اين حوزه هستند.ما تصور ميكنيم فيلسوف هاي انسان نيودند و گويي زندگي نكردند و نمردند اما اين كتاب فيلسوف رو به عنوان يك انسان مقابل شما قرار ميده. مرگ پديده بسيار مهمي هست و گويي كه تمام فلسفه، تمرين مردن بوده است. به هر صورت من كتاب رو به كساني كه علاقه دارند به اين خوزه معرفي ميكنم و خصوصا دوستاني كه كمي با نظريات فيلسوفان اشنايي دارند.

[Ryan Holiday · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wonderful concept for a book. It spends a page and half or so on the deaths of 170 different philosophers. For some, it nicely juxtaposes their beliefs with their practical applications. For others, it illustrates a hypocrisy. Mostly though, I think it does a good job bringing the lot of them back down to earth. The introductions (there are three) are themselves a decent discussion on death and dying. It's one of those books you wish was a Wikipedia page so you could follow all the strands it begins to tug at.

[Greg Brown · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was hugely disappointing, and probably because it's not that good.

The premise of the book is actually pretty interesting: illustrate the various philosophies to death by recounting the personal deaths (and lives) of famous philosophers throughout history and how that compared or contrasted with their philosophy. However, there are a few mistakes that Critchley makes in telling the tales:

- Trying to tell the stories of over 190 different philosophers... in a 250 page book.
- Unable to decide whether the capsule biograpies are meant to be read in sequence or at will.
- Immediately - and with little supporting evidence - imposing his own viewpoint in the picture and allowing it to warp his histories without any apparent consideration of alternative stances beyond mere recounting.

As a result, Critchley rarely manages to eke any depth out of the philosophers discussed. This isn't too much of a problem early on in the greek philosophers, whose differences can be bluntly hashed out without too much loss in detail. But once he gets to medieval times, the enterprise starts to fall apart. (More later.)

Critchley's prose is merely middling, despite being specifically praised by Lewis Lapham (who normally has excellent taste as showcased in Lapham's Quarterly). His tone is so bland that it seems equally ill-suited to discussing philosophy or humorous anecdotes, despite being employed in the service of both. Sometimes there enough transitions between sections to indicate they were meant to be read as a whole, but other times they seem almost slapdash. Even when we're being given the These Are Connected signposts, there doesn't seem to be much added by their juxtaposition.

Finally, the whole book is semi-stifled by Critchley himself, who declares his position from the beginning and never ceases to remind you whether he agrees or disagrees with the author at hand. This is ok when it comes to constructing philosophy, but not when you're laying claim to exegenesis (deciphering the meaning of texts) or recounting their lives in a historically-accurate manner. But yet it does, and the result is that I was deeply suspicious of everything Critchley said. And because he slammed all 190 people into only 250 pages, there's very little given in the way of corroborating evidence. Yuck.

I almost wrote this negative review last night at about 100 pages in, but decided to persevere in hopes that it would get better once we reached more modern philosophers with better documentation of their personal lives. It did get better, but only mildly. There were moments that made me laugh, but only a handful in the whole book.

The Book of Dead Philosophers would be far better served as a two-part arrangement: a quick survey of the deaths of philosophers, followed by a deeper examination of the handful of philosophers whose work Critchley truly finds valuable. As is, it seems too much like Critchley wants to impress you with his research and then slip a fast one on you by sneaking in his own opinion as fact. I found it frustrating in the same way that I find it frustrating to read The Economist's smug claim to stating The Way Things Are while cutting off at the knees my own ability to critically examine the claims.

In the end, the best praise I can give this book is that it was smoothly-written enough that I was over with it fairly quickly. Only a night and a morning spent, and I'm onward to greener pastures.

[Ainsley kerr · Rating 2 out of 5]

what the hell was the point of this book? it was like reading who magazine for philosophy geeks. super shallow. the thing i'm angriest about is that this book is so utterly forgettable that one day in the future i will probably accidentally read it again.

[Negar · Rating 1 out of 5]

کتابی بسیار ضعیف که حاصل توهمات و شنیده های نویسنده است. به قول خود نویسنده که میگوید: «پاهایم را تا زانو در آب های نا آرام ویکیپدیا فرو کرده ام» خود هویداست که چه کتاب زرد و مزخرفی است.

هرجا که راجع به فیلسوفی صحبتی شده به ندرت منبع ذکر شده است و اصلا مشخص نیست این اطلاعات از زندگی فیلسوفان را از کدام منبع اتخاذ کرده است.
به شدت از خواندن این کتاب پشیمانم و برای کشوری که در آن همچین کتابی ترجمه و چاپ میشود متاسف!!

[Aike · Rating 2 out of 5]

Probably would not have finished this book (as quickly) if not for the interesting times in which we are living, leaving me with too much time to do nothing (and thus read).

Three thoughts, the first one somewhat philosophical, the other critical and the last one neither of those two things.
1) Critchley wants his readers to contemplate and meditate on death and the role death plays in our lives. He also argues for an approach to philosophy which does not disregard the lives of philosophers. These two things I found to be incompatible.
2) The witty style did not work for me as well: it felt like Critchley tried to take on too much at once. AND philosophical discussion of death, AND providing us funny/interesting stories of the deaths of philosophers AND presenting their thinking as one with their work. He should've chosen one approach, I think. Now the book was neither truly funny, nor all that interesting (spoiler: most deaths were really quite boring): presenting the discussed philosophers exactly as the stereotypes I already encountered in every other introduction to philosophy.
3) I do not really want to know what it says about me that I already knew every single actual interesting death in this book (the story of how Bacon died continues to be my favourite). I wish my memory for useful things was as good as my memory for morbid facts and details.

Would not recommend. Although it was better than staring at the walls and pacing through my room I guess.

[Maan Kawas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting and engaging book! I really enjoyed it!!!!

[James Murphy · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book seemed just the ticket when I came across it in a bookstore. It more than beckoned, it produced a siren call. Since there were no masts available to lash myself to, I surrendered and walked zombie-like to the cashier, cradling the book carefully. Drama aside, while I was a while warming up to Critchley's book, it lived up to most of its seductive song. His introductory remarks stated he intended to tell how the philosophers of history died and what we could learn from philosophy about the proper attitude to take in regard to death and dying. I didn't think the book very instructive. Not that kind of book, I'd say, more a survey, a roll call of what seems to be every philosopher of the past. What facts are known about their individual deaths are detailed. The more bizarre the death the more fun Critchley seems to have with his material. It's anecdotal and amusing. However, I didn't see that it would help the general reader cope in any way with dying or with grief. Or in learning anything about death as a subject. In fact, no line of thought was presented at all. If any trend stands out it's the general movement during the last 150 years toward secular thought. Indeed, that may be Critchley's lesson.

[Brenda Clough · Rating 2 out of 5]

This review first appeared in the International Cemetery, Cremation & Funeral Association Magazine (www.iccfa.com)
People have been thinking about death for a long time. I am a big fan of not reinventing the wheel. If some expert has already figured it out, why not consult him? Philosophers are professional thinkers on the larger issues, so they are the natural go-to for questions of life and death. However, there has not been a handy compendium of their musings on the subject -- until now.

Simon Critchley, the author of The Book of Dead Philosophers says, “This is a book about how philosophers have died and what we can learn from philosophy about the appropriate attitude to death and dying. My wager is that in learning how to die we might also be taught how to live.” He has amassed in chronological order just about everybody who can be termed a philosopher, writing ninety short biographies that each invariably ends with the philosopher’s demise.

If anything, this book shows that philosophers can die accidentally, messily, or idiotically just like the rest of us – which actually works against the book’s stated premise, since philosophy is obviously no guarantee of a good death. Industry readers may also be annoyed by the way some philosophers (Seneca, for example) didn’t want funerals or tombs (Diogenes).

But the stories are quite amusing and frequently very funny. You also get a fine and easy-to-swallow survey of the entire body of classical philosophical thought. This would be a great gift for a true intellectual, but is probably not going to get a mention in PEOPLE magazine.

[رهف · Rating 5 out of 5]

قضيت رحلة طويلة مع هذا الكتاب، وقد كانت بحق؛ رحلة ممتعة (مع مفارقة عنوانه)
أثناء قراءتي تعجبت كيف يمكن للحديث عن الموت أن يكون عذبًا وطيّبًا، حيث هذا ما وجدته هنا، واستحضرته بقوة.
اعتقدته مملًا في البداية، وليس سوى مجرد سرد تاريخي مختزل لسيرهم وحكايا موتهم. لكنه في الحقيقة يحمل قصص كثيرة حريّة بالاطلاع، وفلسفات تثير التفكير وإعادة النظر رغم اختلافها وتشعبها، وهذا أجمل ما بها: الكثير من الرؤى المتعددة عن العالم. لذا: يجب أن يُقرأ برويّة. فضلًا عن أسلوب الكاتب الذكي والشيّق.
والأهم؛ الشكر الجزيل للمترجم على ترجمته الرائعة!

[María · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book kinda disappointed me a little. I was expecting to learn a little more about phillosophy and fun facts about philosophers' lifes, and while it does provide that at some points, it is generally a little erratic and sometimes you feel as if there was no pattern and the author added some people just because. Take Demetrio, just one line about him. I mean, he could just have left him out if he was going to write just one line about him (and Demetrio doesn't even have an interesting death and he is not that famous).

Another thing that was disappointing is the fact that when he talks about the women he's included (I appeciate the fact that he included them, though) he usually writes about them because of a man and tells more about the man than the actual person he's supposedly writing about.

But this book gives us what was promised, nothing more and nothing less, I guess. I liked that it was a light reading and I got to know some authors I didn't (and now I'm going to do my research on them) and some fun facts, and it made me laugh. In the end, even with the sensation that this book is a little of a mess, I liked it.

[Laura Walsh · Rating 5 out of 5]

This little book was an absolute delight! A great book to pique one's interest and to further one's knowledge of philosophy. So many tidbits of information about these 'serious' thinkers (men and women!) made them so much more relate-able. They may have all been great intellects in their own right, but the personal touches took them a bit off their pedestals, out of their ivory towers and much more accessible.

[Mehmet Ali KIZILASLAN · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fazlasıyla magazinsel bi o kadar da spekülatif bilgi dolu. Filozofların, düşünürlerin ölümlerinin nasıl olduğundan, ölümü nasıl karşıladıklarından bahsediyor. Felsefenin ve filozofun ölüm karşısında ne cevaplar verebileceğini filozofların ölümlerinde arıyor. Benim hoşuma gitti, entelektüel görgü olarak okunabilir. Bazı düşünür ve filozoflar dahil edilmeseymiş de olurmuş. Ayrıca türkçe edisyonda çok sayıda imla hatası mevcut.

[isaac john kaiser · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent journey through the great philosophers from the viewpoint of their mortality.

[Blair Hodges · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like any popular overview of the history of philosophic thought on a given subject, Critchley's cuts some corners, collapses important distinctions (especially in regards to Christianity), and in general has to leave out a good deal of interesting stuff just to get through the story he selected to tell. That said, this is a really fun meditation upon death through the thoughts and deaths of a wide swath of (mostly but not entirely Western) philosophers from Thales and Plato to Foucalt and Derrida.

The book is built as a series of brief little articles detailing some of the thought, experiences, and especially the actual demise, of philosophers. It can be read straight through or by meandering, but a general philosophy of how Critchley thinks we ought to view death creeps through. He favors Montaigne's mix of Epicureanism and Stoicism which forgets of any pretension to an afterlife but focuses rather on living happily in the present, anticipating the "philosopher's death," hopefully a peaceful kind. It's a bit homiletic on this point.

Perhaps more importantly, though, is that Critchley isn't simply offering a way to better understand death through the teachings and lives of various philosphers, but a better way to understand the history of philosophy in general---a different posture toward the dead of the past and thus a way to rethink our place in the present. He tries in his limited way to spread recognition of his view that philosophers the world over contribute to the exercise of thinking about what it means to think and be, that philosophy is a universal activity with all of humanity's messiness, plurality. The most obvious common tie is found in the fact that we all die, and thus it presents a great point of discussion. Overall, the book's concept itself, I think, is much better than Critchley's actual execution (pun intended).

[doreen · Rating 3 out of 5]

The reviews thus far are pretty split on this book. I'd really give it a 3-and-a-half, but Goodreads wouldn't let me do this.

Best-suited for someone with at least a bit of a background in philosophy. If you've taken a course at community college and barely passed, then this won't help you if you need to retake the class. Although I've taken said community college class (and got an A, thank you), it's been a while, and although I have a good interest in philosophy, with the numerous amount of philosophers and the more numerous amount of books, it's hard to know where to start.

Critchley's book is probably better suited for someone who has read a few of the texts from the particularly major philosophers, but if you haven't, it shouldn't necessarily discourage you. There are some interesting topics of discussion brought up in the book, allowing for some moments of mulling over how one looks at one's own life, and which of these philosophers best embody our own views. Although there are better books out there for an introduction to philosophy, I found this one enjoyable and would recommend it to someone who has read other books produced out of philosophical thought.

[David Gordon · Rating 3 out of 5]

When I picked up "The Book of Dead Philosophers," by Simon Critchley, I was hoping that that collection of words would expand my knowledge of philosophy. I was so wrong.

As the title reads, "The Book of Dead Philosophers," that is exactly what is included in this relatively short book of 250 pages. It is a collection of obituaries of 190 philosophers that is enlightening, thought provoking, and at times often funny.

This book is a perfect read for some one that needs to consume a few minutes here and there. It won't inform you how to die or what to do once you get there, but it will give insight as to how some philosophers, Socrates, believed "To be a philosopher, then, is to learn how to die ..." (xxiv Critchley).

[Ioannis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Philosophy in 190 small parts. Actually, death in 190 parts. This book is not about to teach philosophy to anyone, not even to introduce it. Its not even about how philosophers live. It's about how philosophers die. What was the causes of their death and what they believe for it. It's well written with funny facts and a thin irony. This book is a proof that even death can be the cause for some laughs. Recommended for all those who afraid to die. (Don't worry, we are almost 90%. The other 10% just lie.)

[Anam · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book mainly talks about the thoughts of a philosopher on death and how exactly he died and what the author wants us to learn from it in his own words...

"Philosophy is a technically complex academic discipline with its own internal criteria of excellence and it should be kept away from other humanistic disciplines and from the unseemly disorder of private and public life. Needless to say, this is a view that I have sought to challenge in this book"

[Bill Keefe · Rating 4 out of 5]

A delightful read that proved far more informative and thought provoking than I had imagined it would be. Critchley weaves humor and personal anecdotes to give the reader a look into the lives and thoughts of famous and less than famous philosophers on a most personal - and often professional - subject, death, in so doing enlightening us not only on their ideas but their humanity.

Loved this book.

[Vicky · Rating 4 out of 5]

"The book of dead philosophers" reminds me of the "Sophie's world" by Gaader. For people who don't know much about philosophy it is a good introduction. The point is that here is too much fragmented information to really enjoy this book. The 190 philosophers are all dead and here is the attempt to see the question of mortality through the eyes of the great minds.

[Chainsaw · Rating 2 out of 5]

DNF. Despite its unique premise (how did historical philosophers die and how did their end match or disagree with their own philosophical outlooks?), it didn't prove interesting enough to read in its entirety. The descriptions of the various philosophies was overly brief, and the "here's how this person died" content was less often interesting than not.

[Jon · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was a philosophy major and I love the premise of this book. However, it was just too dry and exhaustive for my taste.

[Adam Bricker · Rating 4 out of 5]

From a sentence to a few pages this book visits with nearly 200 philosophers and gives a snippet of their lives, opinions and deaths. A very interesting read.

[biname]

به شدت سطحی،عامی،مزخرف!
فهرست رو نگاه کنید
اسمارو ویکی پدیا سرچ کنید
بیشتر یاد میگیرید!
حتی به کسی که هیچی مطلقا هیچی درباره فلسفه نمیدونه هم توصیه نمی کنم!

[David Hall · Rating 5 out of 5]

I kept this book in the throne room ,I'd usually finished with business by the time I got through two philosophers. Funny and wise , thoroughly enjoyed it !

[glyk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Absolutely loved it!