This looks like it’s going to be a blast.

Twenty years ago, my first Manifesto for Philosophy took arms against the widely-bruited proclamation of the “end” of philosophy. I proposed to replace this “problematic of the end” with the injunction: “one step further”. Certainly, things have changed. If previously philosophy was threatened in its very existence, it could today be argued that it is threatened still, but for the opposite reason: it is living an excessive, artificial life. Particularly in France, “philosophy” is everywhere. It serves as the social justification for various media paladins. It enlivens the cafes and fitness centres. It has its own magazines and gurus. It is universally called upon, by banks and large state commissions, to speak of what is ethical, of rights and responsibilities. The entire point is that “philosophy” has come to mean the very thing which is its most ancient enemy: conservative morality. My second manifesto therefore therefore aims to de-moralise philosophy, to overturn the verdict that delivers it to the vacuity of “philosophies” as ubiquitous as serfs. It rejoins with what, of certain eternal truths, is able to illuminate the action - an illumination which carries philosophy well beyond the figure of man and his “human rights”, well beyond every moralism, to where, in the incandescence of the idea, life becomes something wholly other than mere survival. - A B

I wonder if IT can get hold of a copy in time for her meeting with Alain de Botton?