Table of Contents

1. Splendor and Misery of Exaggeration: An Introduction; 2. Thinking as Gesture: Exaggeration and Philosophy; 3. Trust Me: Exaggeration and Enlightenment; 4. Odd Moves: Exaggeration and Irony; 5. The Violence of Destruction: Exaggeration and Infinity; 6....and...end...: Exaggeration and Politics; 7. Being Guilty: Exaggeration and Factuality; 8. Flight Simulator: Exaggeration and Trauma; 9. The Obvious: Exaggeration and Self-Evidence; 10. Blow Job: Exaggeration and Institution; 11. Old Opera: Exaggeration and Art; 12. Life Lines: Exaggeration and Event; 13. Lexical Note; 14. Acknowledgements.

About the Author

Alexander Garcia Duttmann is Professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths University of London, UK, and author of The Gift of Language and Memory of Thought, published in the Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers series.

Reviews

"Its strength lies in the insights it offers about philosophical questioning itself. If you are looking for a book to shake up your way of doing philosophy, it is a productive read." -Julie Kuhlken, Philosophy in Review

"Explores exaggeration in the senses of both excess and transgression; topics include philosophical concepts of trust and truth." - Chronicle of Higher Education, October 12, 2007