Joy Lo Dico for the Independent explores the surge in popularity of pop philosophy.

This pile of paper cannot help but make one think: when did we start reading so much popular philosophy? Pop-science and “think” books of the Malcolm Gladwell or Freakonomics school, jaunty theses about social science, probability and economics, now regularly pepper the bestseller lists. The ever-popular self-help genre continues to offer an easily digestible diet of light behavioural science and psychology, with big returns for publishers. But surely philosophy – the study of unanswerable questions – cannot be packaged the same way?

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