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me_haugen's review against another edition
5.0
Read this one while I was trying to calm down from the coffee I just drank. I was at my brother's failing coffeeshop business trying out new coffee prototypes. I guess initially, he was trying to lean into this whole "hydration trend" everyone is all into now and adding extra water to his coffee for all the people who love to drink a whole bunch of water and hoping maybe people would even order whole big bottles of his coffee water and pay him a whole bunch. of money. The whole "drink more water" thing is so stupid to me, to be honest. Our bodies are mostly water, why are we so obsessed with getting more? What about eating a bunch more meat and bones if we barely have any of that? Or eyeballs, that makes up a tiny part of your body. Anyway these hydration-obsessed people actually revealed their hypocrisy cause they didn't like the watery coffee and said some pretty mean stuff about my brother's shop -- mostly on yelp and stuff but sometimes to his face too. Anyway, he took the feedback and so he has no more watery coffee but now he's trying out his "oops all beans" coffee which is like a paste basically and that stuff was what messed me up. This book was good.
felipesaldata's review against another edition
4.0
Great source of modern conditions of rational and irrationality that surround us explained soo easily with philosophy. kind of repetitive sometimes, but still worth it
microglyphics's review against another edition
3.0
This was more of a 2 1/2 star read, but I rounded up. At first, I was expecting a work criticising the fetishising of the concept of rationality. The author skirts around this a few times, but mostly he defends it except at the margins. Once I got past the expectation that the book was going to take on post-Enlightenment rationality, I felt there was some decent material. I was then disappointed by the politically polemic ranting about Donald Trump, an editorial conclusion that will ensure this title becomes stale quickly. It's not that I disagree with the sentiment. I just feel that Trump will become a minor footnote in the annals of US history, so why memorialise him here. Perhaps an afterword dedicated to Trump-bashing would have been a better approach.
In the closing chapters, I feel he substantially misrepresented the position of Judith Butler regarding performative gender roles, attributing to her as having defended a position of some performative nature of sexual dimorphism. I am only marginally familiar with Butler's work, but from what I understand, this is not a position she has taken.
In the closing chapters, I feel he substantially misrepresented the position of Judith Butler regarding performative gender roles, attributing to her as having defended a position of some performative nature of sexual dimorphism. I am only marginally familiar with Butler's work, but from what I understand, this is not a position she has taken.
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