Cogito, Non Ergo Porcus: a Review of Jonathan Kramnick’s Actions and Objects: from Hobbes to Richardson

by Maeve E. Adams “I think therefore I’m Liberal”; “I think therefore I’m Dangerous”; “I think therefore I’m Single”; “I think therefore I’m Vegetarian”; and my personal favorite “I think therefore I’m Ham.” These phrases—emblazoned on t-shirts, billboards and, in the case of the latter, the headers of blogs—offer up perverse reinventions of Renee Descartes’…