INDEX

Adorno, Theodor, 6–7, 11–14, 133–34, 136, 138, 185, 211

Afanasyev, Aleksandr, 83

akrasia, 273

algorithms, 17, 19, 135, 206–10, 221, 246

Allix, Jules, 200–204

American Civil Liberties Union, 190–91

Amo, Anton Wilhelm, 33

analytic existentialism, 258–59

Anderson, Perry, 44, 253

Anglin, Andrew, 192–93

Arab Spring, 209

Arendt, Hannah, 212

Aristophanes, 86, 232

Aristotle, 42–43, 77, 81–83, 85, 93, 95, 124, 147, 149

Armstrong, Louis, 113

Arnold, Matthew, 126, 184

ataraxia, 277

Atwood, Margaret, 227–28

Auden, W. H., 249–51

autism, 152–54, 157–58

aviophobia, 67, 69

Babel, Isaak, 104–6, 211, 237

Bachelard, Gaston, 79

Bacon, Francis, 158

Badiou, Alain, 44–45

Barrett, William, 288

bats, 65–67

Baudelaire, Charles, 104, 126–27, 271–72

Bausch, Pina, 116, 284

Bayle, Pierre, 61

Beatles, the, 116–19

Beck, Glenn, 158–59

Beria, Lavrenty, 104, 211

Berlin, Isaiah, 8, 13

Bernhard, Thomas, 283

birtherism, 153

Black Lives Matter, 189–90, 205, 242

Blavatsky, Helena, 84

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 233

Bok, Sissela, 243–44, 246

Bolsheviks, 12, 104, 163

Borges, Jorge Luis, 47, 106

Bourdieu, Pierre, 280, 282

Bourguet, Louis, 131

Boyle, Robert, 124–25, 133

Breivik, Anders Behring, 187, 191

Brennan, Jason, 196–99

Brexit, 10

Brezsny, Rob, 135

Browne, Thomas, 288

Bruckner, Pascal, 8

Buckley, William F., 194

bullshit, 146

Burnyeat, Miles, 266

Bush, George W., 163–64

Butler, Judith, 216–17, 219

Cashell, Kieran, 119

Catherine, empress of Russia, 9, 168

Cavendish, Margaret, 101

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 106

Cervantes, Miguel de, 101, 233

Christ, 54, 164, 177, 180, 183–84

Churchill, Winston, 237

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 28, 30, 34, 35, 71–72, 110–11, 189

Clinton, Hillary, 17, 195, 235

Coccia, Emanuele, 62, 64

Cohen, Eliot A., 166

Colbert, Stephen, 237

comets, 137–38

communitarianism, 155, 176, 268–69

conspiracy theories, 4, 137, 148–50, 153–56, 158–65

Conway, Anne, 54

Conway, Kellyanne, 146, 179

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 141, 149

counter-Enlightenment, 8–9, 13, 24, 166–69, 171–72, 176–77, 184–85, 190, 272

CRISPR, 138

Cromwell, Thomas, 28, 251

Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien, 101

Dadaism, 77, 194

Dalai Lama, 49

D’Annunzio, Gabriele, 272

Dante Alighieri, 180

Danto, Arthur, 115

Darwin, Charles, 143

Daumier, Honoré, 231

Dawkins, Richard, 143, 145

Dead Kennedys (band), 120

Dee, John, 133, 136

Derrida, Jacques, 44

Descartes, René, 52, 60–62, 75–79, 86–87, 97, 99–102, 108–11, 113–14, 120, 145, 158, 167, 170–71, 261

Des Chene, Dennis, 61–62

Dewey, John, 110

dialectic, 93

Dickinson, Emily, 226, 247–49

Diderot, Denis, 79

Dodds, E. R., 94–95, 115–16, 128

Dolezal, Rachel, 206, 222–23

Douglas, Mary, 87, 104, 224, 232

drugs, 4, 88, 120, 194

dualism, 52, 87

Durbach, Nadja, 153

echolocation, 51, 65

Edison, Thomas, 126

Eiffel, Gustave, 126

Elster, Jon, 274–77

Enlightenment, 6–12, 13

epic poetry, 91–93, 117–18

Epictetus, 56

Erasmus, Desiderius, 287–88

Euclid, 100

excluded middle, law of, 81–82

Facebook, 14, 159, 205–9, 289

fallacy, 20, 33, 49

Faucher, Luc, 68

Feyerabend, Paul, 141, 149, 152, 160–61

Field, Hartry, 64

Fischer, Alain, 154–55

Fisher, Mark, 210

Fludd, Robert, 138

Foucault, Michel, 154, 288

Foucher, Simon, 47

Fraenkel, Carlos, 54

St. Francis of Assisi, 36–37

Frank, Thomas, 265

Frankfurt, Harry, 146

Frege, Gottlob, 52

Freud, Sigmund, 76–77, 95–97, 120

Fumaroli, Marc, 171

fundamentalism, Islamic, 10

Galileo Galilei, 133, 136, 140, 149

Galland, Antoine, 111

Gassendi, Pierre, 32, 34, 35, 53, 70–71, 125, 138

Gay, Peter, 270

gelastics, 231

Gellius, Aulus, 31

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Étienne, 175–76

giants, 177

Girard, René, 70–71, 168

Godfrey-Smith, Peter, 58–59

Goerwitz, Emmanuel F., 86

Goethe, J. W. von, 128–29, 133, 140

Golden Dawn (Greek political party), 205

Goldwater, Barry, 160

Goodman, Nelson, 117

Goody, Jack, 82–83, 90

Google, 14, 156, 208

Gordon, Lewis R., 223

Gorky, Maxim, 104–5, 211

Gouges, Olympe de, 11, 167–68

Gould, Stephen Jay, 30, 208

Goya, Francisco, 79

Greer, Germaine, 227

Grimm, the Brothers, 83, 169

Habermas, Jürgen, 16, 41, 253

Haidt, Jonathan, 211

Hale, Alan, 137

Hallyday, Johnny, 233–34

Ham, Ken, 142, 144–46, 182

Harrison, George, 117–18

Hazard, Paul, 6, 125, 170

Heaven’s Gate (cult), 136

Hedberg, Mitch, 81

Heer, Jeet, 211

Hegel, G.W.F., 172–74, 176, 240

Heidegger, Martin, 34, 35, 60, 161–62

Hellenism, 127–28

Herder, J. G., 9, 166, 172, 177, 268

Herman, Judith L., 238–39

Hermes Trismegistus, 179

Herodotus, 177

Herzog, Rudolf, 236

Herzog, Werner, 38, 40

Hess, Amanda, 135

Higuera, Jerónimo Román de la, 163

Hinduism, 37

Hippasus of Metapontum, 1–3, 19, 48, 56, 105–6

Hitler, Adolf, 192, 236, 268

Hofstadter, Richard, 160

Hölderlin, Friedrich, 269

Homer, 89, 91–93, 274–75

Honnold, Alex, 262–63

Horace, 84–85, 93

Horkheimer, Max, 6–7, 11–14, 185

Hugo, Victor, 203

Hume, David, 102

Husák, Gustáv, 249

Iamblichus, 2

identitarianism, 10–126

imagination, 18, 22, 32, 75, 77–79, 82, 85, 87, 100–102, 108–10, 126–28, 130, 169, 179, 234–36, 246

intersectionality, 11, 215

Isidore of Seville, 65, 187

Israel, Jonathan, 166

istina, 163

Jarry, Alfred, 231

Jaynes, Julian, 89–92

Jefferson, Thomas, 7, 183

Jelles, Jarig, 240

Jenner, Edward, 153

Jeoffry (cat), 122

St. Jerome, 53

John (Apostle), 27, 53

Johnson, Chuck, 236

Jones, Alex, 159–60, 165

Joyce, James, 91

Juana Inés de la Cruz, 79

Kabbalah, 55

Kaltreider, Jimmy, 70–71

Kant, Immanuel, 33, 42, 84–87, 111–13, 115, 204, 229, 240

kayfabe, 197

Kepler, Johannes, 79, 88, 149

Kepler, Katharina, 88

Keynes, John Maynard, 252

Khmer Rouge, 12

Kierkegaard, Søren, 144, 147, 164, 258–59

Kieślowski, Krzysztof, 283

Kim Jong-un, 137

Kircher, Athanasius, 180

Kleine, Richard, 289

Kohn, Eduardo, 63

Koons, Jeff, 114–15, 282

Kouachi, the Brothers, 231

Kubrick, Stanley, 2

Lacan, Jacques, 45

La Fontaine, Jean de, 274, 277

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di, 186

Laudan, Larry, 123

Leibniz, G. W., 32–33, 47, 56, 87–88, 99–100, 109–10, 112, 122, 131–32, 156–57, 198, 209, 275

Le Pen, Jean-Marie, 231

Le Pen, Marine, 248

LessWrong, 71–72

Lewis, Paul, 14

liberalism, classical, 11

libertarianism, 70

Lifton, Robert Jay, 238–39

Lilla, Mark, 228

Limbaugh, Rush, 158–59

Lincoln, Abraham, 7

Lloyd, G.E.R., 90–91, 147

logos, 27, 53–54, 251, 284

Lönnrot, Elias, 83

Lucian of Samosata, 31, 126

lulz, 36, 193

Luther, Martin, 286

Lyotard, Jean-François, 173–75

Lysenko, Trofim, 141

Machery, Edouard, 68

MacLaine, Shirley, 84–85

MacLane, Mary, 113

Macrobius, 94

Macron, Emmanuel, 173–75

Manif pour tous, 189–90

manspreading, 206–7

Mantel, Hilary, 261

Mao Tse-tung, 45, 210–11

Marxism, 6–8, 211, 274, 280

Maximilian of Bavaria, 99

McCain, John, 166

McCarthy, Jenny, 154

McCloskey, Deirdre, 270

McDowell, John, 52

Melville, Herman, 30–31, 33, 185, 197–98, 213, 224

memes, 17–18, 36

mens rea, 238

Mercier, Hugo, 65, 66

Merrill, James, 3, 126

metamorphosis, 81

Michnik, Adam, 230

Mintz, Sidney W., 277

Mishra, Pankaj, 9–10, 13, 168, 272

Modigliani, Amadeo, 116

Montaigne, Michel de, 247

Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de, 46

Montessori, Maria, 110

Moore, Henry, 116

Murray, Les, 53, 116, 284

music, 4, 56, 103, 117–21, 136, 281

Mussolini, Benito, 272

Nabokov, Vladimir, 96–97, 151–52, 265

Nagle, Angela, 194

Napoleon Bonaparte, 172–76

Native Americans, 73–75, 78, 180, 182

Nazism (and neo-Nazism), 6, 137, 188, 190–93, 205, 211–15, 231, 236, 240, 272

Newcomb’s Problem, 35–37, 39

Newton, Isaac, 149, 157, 176

Niakan, Kathy, 138–39

Nichols, Tom, 156

Nicholson, Jack, 213

Niethammer, F. I., 172

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 8, 90, 126–28, 164

Nitsch, Hermann, 119

Nixon, Richard, 194

Nussbaum, Emily, 235–36

Obama, Barack, 141, 153

octopuses, 31, 33, 34, 51, 58–59

Oktar, Adnan (Harun Yahya), 143

Olonkho, 117–18

Ong, Walter J., 92

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 139

Origen, 54

Overton, Joseph P., 147–48, 158

Ovid, 82–83, 222

Pappus of Alexandria, 2–3

Pascal, Blaise, 109–10, 132

Paul (octopus), 51, 132

Paul (saint), 226, 248–50

Peace of Westphalia, the, 99

Peinovich, Mike, 192–93, 235

Peirce, Charles Saunders, 63

Pepe the Frog, 193–94, 235

Peterson, Jordan, 11–12

phantasm, 83–85, 98–100, 109

Philolaus, 141, 149

Pigliucci, Massimo, 123

Piketty, Thomas, 253

Pinker, Steven, 10

Plato, 13, 14, 93–94, 103, 180, 201

Plotinus, 43

Plutarch, 31–33, 58, 72

poiesis, 106, 126

Polanski, Roman, 213

Poliakov, Léon, 230

Polybius, 177

Pope, Alexander, 226

Popper, Karl, 123

Porphyry, 43

pravda, 163

Proust, Marcel, 76, 90

Putin, Vladimir, 8

Pythagoreanism, 1, 3, 14, 48, 56

Quakerism, 54–55

Quine, W.V.O., 95

Rabelais, François, 233

racism, 11, 68–69, 184, 231, 242–43

Ramus, Petrus (Pierre de la Ramée), 29–30

Raniere, Keith, 47–49

Ranke, Leopold von, 178–79, 242

ratio, 27, 55

rationalism, 54, 76, 99–101, 109, 114, 156, 169, 170, 187, 209, 225–26, 275

Reagan, Ronald, 194

Reagan Youth (band), 120

Riel, Louis, 122

Robespierre, Maximilien de, 210, 226

romanticism, 6, 83, 110–15, 125, 128–29, 151, 168, 260

Rorario, Girolamo, 59–61, 63–64

Rosenstein, Justin, 207

Roth, Philip, 106–7

Rotten, Johnny, 254, 283

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 9–10, 38, 168–69

Sahlins, Marshall, 278–79, 282

Salzman, Lauren, 48

Sanders, Bernie, 17, 205

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 60, 72, 226, 281

Sasquatch, 145

Savio, Mario, 187

Saxo Grammaticus, 82–83, 177, 222

Schiller, Friedrich, 102

Scott, James C., 94

Sex Pistols, 254, 283

Silicon Valley, 8, 70–71, 199

Smart, Christopher, 122

Social Distortion (band), 120

social media, 12, 14, 137, 168, 193, 205–12, 220–21, 225–28, 242

Socrates, 3, 28, 93, 201, 232, 256–57, 259–60, 264, 266, 272

Sonderweg, 13, 15

sophism, 20, 31, 33, 35, 46, 50, 229

Spencer, Richard, 188–89

Sperber, Dan, 65, 66

Spinoza, Baruch, 54, 56, 100, 108–10, 170, 240–41

Staal, Frits, 284–85

Staël, Germaine de, 13

Stalin, Joseph, 45, 104–5

Stauffenberg, Claus von, 236

Stendhal, 90

Stern, Howard, 234–35

Sternhell, Zeev, 8–9, 13, 177

Stoicism, 55, 56, 72, 272, 277

Streisand, Barbra, 91

Suárez, Francisco, 61–62

Swedenborg, Emmanuel, 84, 204

Syriza (Greek political party), 205

Tacitus, 31

Tarkovsky, Andrei, 232, 285–86

Tea Party, 136, 172

Temples of Reason, 5, 41, 50

Terence, 214, 226

Tertullian, 144–45

Themistius, 31

Thiel, Peter, 70–71

Thoth (god), 180

Thucydides, 177

Tito, Iosip Broz, 45

Tolstoy, Lev, 269–72, 282, 284, 286

Toussaint Louverture, François Dominique, 167

Tran and Helle (comedy duo), 236

transgression, 119–21, 128, 186, 206–7, 271–72

Trigger, Bruce, 74–75

Trump, Donald, 7, 8, 10, 17, 36, 120, 137, 146–47, 153, 156, 164, 169, 174–75, 193, 205, 215, 234–38, 245–48, 250, 265, 272

truth dumping, 241–42

Tuvel, Rebecca, 223

Twitter, 14, 30, 135, 153, 206, 209, 211, 215, 219, 236

Tylor, Edward, 95, 97

Vedas, the, 15

Verne, Jules, 126

Vico, Giambattista, 9, 177–78, 183

violence, 2, 4–5, 19, 50, 119–22, 172, 186–87, 190, 212–15, 261, 272

Voltaire, 9–10, 156, 166, 168–69, 229, 231

Wallace, David Foster, 61

Washington, George, 7, 180–81, 183–84

Wavy Gravy, 194

Weinberger, Eliot, 233

Wertheim, Margaret, 162

Whewell, William, 125, 129

Whitman, Walt, 222, 225

Wikipedia, 156

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 34, 35, 42, 52

Woolf, Virginia, 18, 89–90

Yeats, William Butler, 271

Yiannopoulos, Milo, 187–88

Yudkowsky, Eliezer, 70

Zeno the Eleatic, 46–47

Zhdanov, Andrei, 105

Žižek, Slavoj, 45–46

Zola, Émile, 16

Zoshchenko, Mikhail, 105

Zuckerberg, Mark, 197