Intellectual humor disguised as a philosophical treatise or vice versa? Does it matter? Probably not. This slim volume is written by one of today’s leading philosophers on a subject well known to most everyone. But according to Frankfurt while many can recognize it, but not many know what bullshit actually is. Drawing on the works of such illuminaries as Wittgenstein and Pascal, Ezra Pound and St. Augustine, Frankfurt proceeds to build a theory behind the term, all in about 80 pages. Talk about cutting through the...
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