by Maurizio Ferraris · Presses Universitaires de France · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782130792932
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«L'imbécillité est une chose sérieuse» is the philosophical essay by Maurizio Ferraris, published by PUF in paperback (148 pages, in French).
Ferraris argues that imbecility is not a lack of intelligence but a social and ontological phenomenon. Every era has its charlatans and fools, and technology, culture, art and science reveal our vulnerability. Stupidity thus presents itself as a serious category for understanding the information age.
French translation by Michel Orcel; the work was originally published in Italian in 2016.
For readers of philosophy and essays interested in critical analysis of contemporary society.
Maurizio Ferraris is an Italian continental philosopher and scholar, whose name is associated especially with the philosophical current named "new realism"—Ferraris wrote the Manifesto of New Realism in 2012, which was published in 2014)—which shares significant similarities with speculative realism and object oriented ontology.
