In this blog post, I will write an overview of the book “Hva er filosofi” (What is philosophy?) by Lars Svendsen.

At a local bookstore, I bought a version that was translated into my native language. The translation isn’t the best, but I still finished the book as I found the content interesting and was able to get past the syntactical issues by ignoring them and merely focusing on the content 🙂 As a matter of fact, I think the syntactical issues were actually a good thing. I mostly write blog posts like this one because it helps me with crystallizing ideas, and when I try to explain parts of the book I can’t just copy/paste, I have to work on paraphrasing using (hopefully, what is) non-broken grammar.

I have read a couple of philosophy books in the past period, and I have to say that this book is probably the most meta of them all. I had one picture in mind as to what philosophy represents (argument+idea), but reading this book extended that view: philosophy is everything and nothing.

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