‘Cause Synthesis Never Still: Reading Charlie Johns’s “A History of Philosophy in 100 Pages”
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Abstract
Reading Charlie Johns’s History of Philosophy in 100 Pages is like stepping onto a street where Plato, Kant, Hegel, and Meillassoux walk beside you. The book refuses the stillness of catalogue entries, offering instead concepts as living “signatures”—each a doorway rather than a lid. Motion, speculative realism, and hermeneutical openness combine so that thinking is simultaneously historical, ethical, and cosmologically aware. Brevity becomes a vehicle for circulation: thought can be pocketed, read on a train, or left as a quiet provocation. Philosophy is restored as public, operative, and ethically alert, a Swiss army knife of ideas for anyone who wants to do things with thought.
Book Review
Charlie Johns. 2025. A History of Philosophy in 100 Pages. UK: London Academic Publishing.
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