Many thanks to Thomas Dunne Books for an ARC. Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important and Most Unexpected Questions is written by Ian Olasov and published by Thomas Dunne Books.

From questions that we all wrestle with in private to questions that you never thought to ask, Ask a Philosopher will get you thinking. In partnership with the Brooklyn Public Library, he has organized the Brooklyn Public Philosophers event series since 2013, which has held Ask a Philosopher booths, philosophy talks, screenings, and more. It is a collection of answers to the philosophical questions on people's minds-from the big to the personal to the ones you didn't know you needed answered. Ian Olasov is the author of Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important - and Most Unexpected - Questions (St. Rather than treating the topic of philosophy as esoterical and much misunderstood, Ian Olasov opens it up to a wider audience than ever before and manages to make it a fun and entertaining experience along the way. Here, the author has made an accessible and overwhelming stint as a successful street vendor of philosophical answers into a book and explains everything in terms anyone can understand regardless of their education. Just because a person may lack the capacity to fully understand the often lyrical, convoluted and/or complex ways in which these writings usually lean does not mean they shouldn't be privy to the conversation surrounding that particular question or whatever question they may have. Of course, many people with varying degrees of interest and prior knowledge of philosophical concepts ask themselves the same questions about our existence and purpose for living to name only one and perhaps the most asked question of them all. Ask a Philosopher is a superb book as quite simply the one complaint I generally hear about philosophy is that to a layperson it is inaccessible, and despite having read a large number of philosophy books over the years I agree that the general population can often have issues understanding and comprehending exactly what is being discussed.

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