Astonish Yourself: 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life

Droit's strange and delightful little volume explores some of the biggest questions in philosophy with exercises instead of terminology-laden tracts, by encouraging readers to discover the ways in which small or familiar acts--fasting, prowling, playing--can become "the starting point for that astonishment which gives rise to philosophy." There are exercises to calm, to disorient, to humanize, to displace; for instance, listening to shortwave radio at night, Droit writes, will help readers realize that "perpetually around you, woven into the air...are these hundreds of voices murmuring, in dozens of unknown or unrecognizable languages, of which you know nothing, expect that they spread an obscure and changing human crust, unendingly, over everything." Other exercises include: telephoning at random; drinking while urinating; looking at people from a moving car; contemplating a dead bird; turning off the sound on the TV; looking for blue food; considering humanity to be an error; smiling at a stranger.
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