If you like your philosophers in small wacky chunks look no further than Action Philosophers! This is the newly published compilation of the award winning comic book series by the same name. Fred Van Lente is the artist and Ryan Dunlavey is the writer -- and they are having fun. From the pre-Socratics and Lao Tzu through Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida you get a chronological look at the lives and thoughts of all the Great Ones. I was surprised to find Rumi, Freud and Thomas Jefferson included -- but no complaints. The tales are told with humor, rendering the esoteric harmless and accessible to mere mortals. For the few whose works I knew, I was surprised as to how clear and 'faithful' the comic stories were, though brief and told in a slightly mad way. It has now been a few weeks that Action Philosophers! has been my last-read at bed time. I sleep smiling and feeling smarter.Digg
If you like your philosophers in small wacky chunks look no further than Action Philosophers! This is the newly published compilation of the award winning comic book series by the same name. Fred Van Lente is the artist and Ryan Dunlavey is the writer -- and they are having fun. From the pre-Socratics and Lao Tzu through Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida you get a chronological look at the lives and thoughts of all the Great Ones. I was surprised to find Rumi, Freud and Thomas Jefferson included -- but no complaints. The tales are told with humor, rendering the esoteric harmless and accessible to mere mortals. For the few whose works I knew, I was surprised as to how clear and 'faithful' the comic stories were, though brief and told in a slightly mad way. It has now been a few weeks that Action Philosophers! has been my last-read at bed time. I sleep smiling and feeling smarter.Digg