Contrariwise
conceptual tensions in contemporary life
A veritable romp of philosophical fun. Poignant, personal essays exploring pairs of opposing or seemingly opposing concepts, exposing the contradictions running through everyday life, and expanding the horizons of everyday thinking. Philosophy with a pulse.
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These jaunty essays on philosphical themes that cut through contemporary existence examine the conceptual tensions that define us and confine us. Non-technical, addressed at a general audience, the essays seek to free us from our stuck and unreflective stances, and to exorcise the semantic demons that oppress us and hold us in thoughtless thrall. Logical rigour meets love of paradox to produce therapeutic puns.
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Michael Picard, PhD
Member of the Professional Writers Association of Canada.
MSc. and a PhD. in Philosophy from Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Cambridge.
Author of This is Not a Book, now in print as Philosophy: Adventures in Thought and Reasoning, (2013). Quid Publishing, but co-published internationally with Allen & Unwin in Australia and NZ, by Barnes & Noble in the US, and by Continuum Books in the UK and elsewhere. Translated into French, Greek, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, and Estonian. Over 100,000 copies sold worldwide.
Co-author (with Gary Hayden) of Paradoxes (2013), a revised and expanded edition of This Book does Not Exist (2009). Quid Publishing. Multiple translations; global sales over 70,000.
Experienced facilitator of philosophical dialogue, having run over 600 sessions of public participatory philosophy.
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