In Hospital Environments: Essays on Illness and Philosophy

In these essays-dealing variously with illness and disability, writing and reading, liberty and apathy, distrust and expertise, Raymond Aron and liberalism, love and grief, and Jake’s cat Lemons-Jake Goldsmith, author of Neither Weak Nor Obtuse and founder of the Barbellion Prize, demonstrates that the root of philosophy is the courage of honesty. With illustrations by Wend Rend.