Philosophistry: The Love of Rhetoric

"Everything is rhetoric," says Philip Dhingra, "as nothing exists except in the concepts we have been persuaded to believe." Written in the style of Nietzsche's Gay Science, Philosophistry takes a critical eye to topics as wide-ranging as evolution and economics, happiness and history, cryonics and computer science. These 234 micro-essays represent Dhingra's 15-year love affair with words, all of which originated in a blog of the same name that he started in a cybercaf in London's Picadilly Circus.