How to Deal With Idiots: (And Stop Being One Yourself) - Couverture souple

Rovere, Maxime

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1788167147 ISBN 13 : 9781788167147

Editeur : Profile Books Ltd, 2023

Synopsis

Idiocy is all around us, whether it's the uncle spouting conspiracy theories, the colleagues who repeat your point but louder, or the commuters who still don't know how to use an escalator. But what is the answer to this perpetual scourge?

Here, philosopher Maxime Rovere turns his attention to the murkiest of intellectual corners. With warmth, wit and wisdom, he illuminates a new understanding of idiots, one which examines our relations to others and our own ego, offers tools and strategies to dismantle the most desperate of idiotic situations, and even reveals how to stop being the idiots ourselves (because we're always someone else's idiot).

Expertly translated by David Bellos, this is an erudite, enjoyable and much-needed solution to a most familiar vexation.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Maxime Rovere is a philosopher who has dedicated his life to studying the ways we interact, through both the history of philosophy (Spinoza and others in the Early Enlightenment) as well as in contemporary ethics, and now in turning his attention to the scourge of all ages: idiots. Associate Researcher at the École Normale Supérieure (Lyon), he lectures regularly at the universities of Buenos Aires and Montreal and was Council of Humanities Visiting Fellow at Princeton University in 2019.

David Bellos is a translator and biographer, and is Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His book, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? is a brilliant account of the way translation is at the heart of everything we do.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The international bestseller that offers an alternative to chucking your most irksome idiot out of a window.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Profile Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1788167147
• ISBN 13: 9781788167147
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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