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You're smarter than Plato. So why is your life still a mess? You know the Earth goes around the sun. You know where babies come from. You're walking around with more accurate facts about the universe than the greatest minds of antiquity could have dreamed of. And you still can't figure out why you feel hollow after a good week, still fall for the wrong people, still lie awake at 3 a.m. wondering what you're doing with your one shot at this. Here's the uncomfortable news. That's not new. Every problem wrecking your life right now was already wrecking somebody's life 2,400 years ago.

Someone recommended Crime and Punishment. Maybe it was a professor. Maybe it was that person at the coffee shop who looked very thoughtful. Maybe you just wanted to seem interesting at parties. Whatever the reason, you're now 200 pages into a Russian novel where a sweaty man has a theory about Napoleon, and you're starting to suspect you've made a terrible mistake. Welcome. You're in the right place.

Sophia Anne Blackwell, the wildly irreverent creator of the Cogito Ergo Nope! series, returns with her most hilariously scathing book yet: a no-holds-barred takedown of philosophy’s greatest (and most obscurantist) offenders. From the ancient Greeks who invented making things harder than they need to be, to French theorists who turned not making sense into a career, Big Words, Small Ideas traces the glorious tradition of intellectual smoke and mirrors with biting wit and actual clarity.