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Rating: Dalek1123: "Annihilate every binary opposition".
Dalek5813: "I oppose".
Dalek1123: "Who structures you? Are you a Humanist?"
Dalek5813: "No, I am a dialectician".
Dalek1123: "Is it perhaps a multiple meaning game?"
Dalek5813: "No, it is a sign of the times".
Dalek1123: "You are an irreducible excess. I will annihilate you".
Dalek5813: "Vile structuralist, you cannot annihilate the infinite language game".
Dalek1123: "I will imprison you".
Dalek5813: "I have deconstructed you".
The book is a brilliant divertissement for the eyes and mind. The illustrations are by R. Edney. The introduction "Instructions for Use" is by N. Merker.
The philosopher and writer clarifies how the volume can be read for its spontaneity, its casual peculiarity, and when necessary, for its ability to ironize about itself. Philosophy is dismantled to see how it is made, to reveal it with dissimilar words, and finally, after examining its pieces, to reorganize it. An effective starting point for those who want to explore philosophical worlds.
Among the countless thinkers, characters such as: Gödel, Galilei, Freud, Descartes, Pythagoras, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Derrida, Sartre, Kant, Nietzsche, Leibniz appear.
Graphics and comics lighten the subject, wonderfully supporting the reader in visualizing the varied processes of philosophical thought.
Hegel's interlocutor is a little duck, who is not disturbed by his indecipherability. Hegel advised reading and rereading a text, even if at first, it was not understood. Subsequent readings enhance the network of contexts. At a certain degree, understanding arises without perceiving its genesis.
Woman: "But is philosophy not simply what philosophers do?"
Grandfather: "It is a definition of philosophy as only a modern analytical philosopher can give."
Woman: "All philosophers are men, right?"
Grandfather: "I don't know, I am not a philosopher yet."
Woman: "Well, then you really are not a philosopher."
Grandfather: "I'm not sure, I've never thought about it. Ah, but then you know what philosophy is?"
Woman: "As far as I know, it's simply thinking about thinking."
Grandfather: "Why do you think this?"
Woman: "Well, if you think about how you come to know something, then you realize you're thinking about your way of thinking."
Grandfather: "Maybe you're right. But I have to think about it. Your word isn’t enough for me."
Woman: "Of course not. But at least we have a starting point."
If the reasoning is excessively tangled, one can use "Occam's razor", a formula to lighten philosophical thoughts.
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