Philosophical Fragments
A book series embracing fiction, drama, puppetry, poetry, and myth: It's humour for thinking grownups who need no A.I. to philosophise — check out volume 1!
Professor of Philosophy · University of Akureyri
Giorgio Baruchello
“Humour is serious business.”
Philosopher, professor, and writer — A quiet and friendly bookshelf for all those minds that still enjoy being surprised and reflecting in earnest.
Educated in Italy, Iceland, and Canada, his writings trace a path between Continental and Analytic traditions, and explore the human condition.
Worlds and Works
Baruchello's scholarly research encompasses axiology, social and political philosophy, intellectual history, ethics, critical thinking, rhetoric, and the philosophy of humour. Depth of thought calls for breadth of study.
Across these diverse areas, one key concern recurs: how social values, personal responsibility, cruelty, and folly shape human institutions and self-understanding. Life is a magnetic field whose poles are reason and unreason.
His literary and comedic works do not leave philosophy behind. They change the instruments of choice. Hence, there blossom satire, pastiche, farce, allegory, novellas, short stories, aphorisms, grotesques, put-ons, and witty fragments.
All royalties from the sales of his volumes for Northwest Passage Books go to the charitable Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Select Publications
Thinking and Laughing
A very rich collection of philosophical essays and original comic texts tackling the lived domains of humour and cruelty, both individually and conjointly.
Humour and Cruelty
Co-authored with Ársæll M. Arnarsson, a biological psychologist, it is a multi-volume philosophical exploration of humour and cruelty, how these phenomena can cooperate and contrast each other, and their shared affective underbelly.
Nordicum-Mediterraneum: Icelandic E-Journal of Nordic and Mediterranean Studies
Pioneering free, open-access, online scholarship in Iceland, and connecting the Nordic and Mediterranean countries across all extant fields of academic study.