- Library Binding: 94 pages
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1439552479
- ISBN-13: 978-1439552476
- Product Dimensions: 25.7 x 16.5 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Action Philosophers! comics are consistently brilliant. This is the first book which collects the first three issues of the comic. Each comic covers three philosophers so you're getting nine philosophers in total with this book:
#1: - Nietzsche, Bodhidharma and Plato
#2: - Ayn Rand, Thomas Jefferson and Saint Augustine.
#3: - Freud, Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell.
The series is one of those rare products that manages to be genuinely entertaining and informative at the same time. I arrived at the books with a reasonable amount of knowledge on all of those featured apart from Bodhidarma but as the books do a pretty decent job of summarising the basics of the people they profile I'm confident that they'll also appeal to people who may be less familiar with the topics at hand.
I read the comics primarily for entertainment rather than educational value but they do serve as a decent little refresher course on philosophy as well. The book has also caused me to forever envisage Plato as a masked wrestler screaming 'PLATO SMASH!' but I don't think that's really a bad thing.
This first volume is arguably the best of the the three that are available, though my personal favourite is Karl Marx which can be found in Volume 2 (the blue one) which I also wholeheartedly recommend.
#1: - Nietzsche, Bodhidharma and Plato
#2: - Ayn Rand, Thomas Jefferson and Saint Augustine.
#3: - Freud, Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell.
The series is one of those rare products that manages to be genuinely entertaining and informative at the same time. I arrived at the books with a reasonable amount of knowledge on all of those featured apart from Bodhidarma but as the books do a pretty decent job of summarising the basics of the people they profile I'm confident that they'll also appeal to people who may be less familiar with the topics at hand.
I read the comics primarily for entertainment rather than educational value but they do serve as a decent little refresher course on philosophy as well. The book has also caused me to forever envisage Plato as a masked wrestler screaming 'PLATO SMASH!' but I don't think that's really a bad thing.
This first volume is arguably the best of the the three that are available, though my personal favourite is Karl Marx which can be found in Volume 2 (the blue one) which I also wholeheartedly recommend.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Not a comic fan
9 July 2006
Format:Paperback
I have never been a comic fan, however I work with two die hard comic guys and they came to me all jittery and excited telling me I had to see this comic book about philosophers. You see, I've studied philosophy for 10 years, edging closer and to the elusive BA. I am a natural skeptic but I caved in and looked. I laughed out loud at least four times merely leafing through the pages. When I had time to sit down and actually read through the "big red thing" I was very impressed at the blending of humor and accuracy. The spin put on these brilliant thinkers offers true laughter while remaining very accurate to the spirit of their ideas. I had to bring the book to my philosophy professors to test them out and to my pleasure they found it as funny and accurate as I! Nothing like a little brown nosing through comics! I am very impressed with this book and I will purchase every issue of the comic from now on! well done=)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Very Funny
10 July 2006
Format:Paperback
This is hysterically funny. For anyone who knows the history of philosophy and likes to laugh. Philosophically accurate.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Masterful Edutainment
7 Jun 2006
Format:Paperback
This book collects the first three issues of "Action Philosophers!" comics. All three issues are individually sold out, so this is an excellent opportunity to collect them if you missed out on any of the earlier works.
This comic was not what I expected - I saw the title, and thought that we'd get some rather goofy philosopher-inspired superheroes. Instead, we get true stories of the lives and teachings of various philosphers, but told in a very fresh style. There's a wit and energy to these stories that makes reading about something like objectivism or psychoanalysis far more fun that it really ought to be.
This comic was not what I expected - I saw the title, and thought that we'd get some rather goofy philosopher-inspired superheroes. Instead, we get true stories of the lives and teachings of various philosphers, but told in a very fresh style. There's a wit and energy to these stories that makes reading about something like objectivism or psychoanalysis far more fun that it really ought to be.
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