Stupid IdiotsLars Svendsen, Reaktion Books, £14.95 NORWEGIAN academic Lars Svendsen writes from multiple perspectives — thinker, joker, moralist and satirist — bringing humour and erudition to the philosophy of society, popular culture and everyday life.Previous books have tackled themes such as boredom, fashion, work, loneliness and lying. His latest explores the pervasive, spectacular and dangerous failures of cognition known as stupidity and idiocy.

ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an effective and entertaining overview of those who see erroneous ideas as self-evident truths

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