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Should You Judge This Book By Its Cover?: 100 Fresh Takes On Familiar Sayings And Quotations

Julian Baggini

Another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy from the master of the genre. This time Baggini applies his philosophical scalpel to famous sayings, proverbs and pieces of homespun wisdom. Should you really do as the Romans do when in Rome and practise what you preach? Is the grass always in fact greener on the other side of the fence, and is there ever smoke without fire? Is beauty always in the eye of the beholder and is it actually better to be safe than sorry? Baggini's approach is as witty and deeply thought-provoking as ever.

  • Classification : Popular Philosophy
  • Pub Date : MAR 4, 2010
  • Imprint : Granta
  • Page Extent : 224
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781847081551
  • Price : INR 999
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Julian Baggini

JULIAN BAGGINI's books include the Sunday Times bestselling How the World Thinks; How to Think Like a Philosopher; The Virtues of the Table; and the bestselling The Pig That Wants to be Eaten, all published by Granta Books. He was the founding editor of The Philosophers' Magazine and has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian, the TLS, the Financial Times and Prospect, as well as for the think tanks The Institute of Public Policy Research, Demos and Counterpoint. He has served as Academic Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds and has been a member of the Food Ethics Council since 2016. His website is JulianBaggini.com.

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