Description:

**A wickedly funny and satisfyingly highbrow black comedy about the collapse of Western academic institutions under the weight of neoliberal economics and crushing, widespread idiocy.** Lars and W., the two preposterous philosophical anti-heroes of *Spurious* and *Dogma* - called "Uproarious" by the New York Times Book Review - return and face a political, intellectual, and economic landscape in a state of total ruination. With philosophy professors being moved to badminton departments and gin in short supply - although not short enough - the two hapless intellectuals embark on a relentless mission. Well, several relentless missions. For one, they must help gear a guerilla philosophy movement - conducted outside the academy, perhaps under bridges - that will save the study of philosophy after the long, miserable decades of intellectual desert known as the early 21st-century. For another, they must save themselves, perhaps by learning to play badminton after all. Gin isn't free, you know. *From the Trade Paperback edition.*