Imagining Philosophy
Harvard doesn’t publish any old graphic novel. Nick Sousanis has achieved something powerful — a book that doesn't just say a thesis, but actually shows one
By Stephen AsmaMay 6, 2016
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Unflattening by Nick Sousanis. Harvard University Press. 208 pages.
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Asma is professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago. He is author of many books, including On Monsters (Oxford), The Gods Drink Whiskey (Harper Collins), and Against Fairness (Chicago). He writes regularly for The New York Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and was a Fulbright Scholar to China in 2014. His website is: www.stephenasma.com.
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