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Yes, it's asparagus (with melted butter).
Owen, I'm glad that you got me off the hook as "accidental quizmaster".

It's your turn now.

Passing over why this is such a suspiciously short question, if it was anyone but Andre I would question and probe.

My question is of philosophers and may hang around unloved for that reason.

Who was the author of the book that I relegated to the attic last week on the grounds that I had been looking at it for nearly 2 years without opening it?

As a special offer if after guessing the author you then go on to guess the title of the book the role of quizmaster will revert to me.

Pliny the Elder (Naturalis Historia)?

DRT wrote:Pliny the Elder (Naturalis Historia)?

An excellent suggestion from Derek the Dry, Daniel would no doubt take the money and run but, no not Pliny, someone rather more recent.

Boethius (De consolatione philosophiae)

No Andre, not Boethius, I like the cut of his jib though. It was one of your compatriots, not that this narrows the field much as they all seem to be.

As it is not my turn, I would like to amuse with a little interlude and refer to Monty Python's "Philosopher Football":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2gJamguN04

That did make me hoot Andre.

Karl Marx (Das Kapital)?

Asparagus

Wolfgang Starz {a.k.a. WS1} (die Philosophie des Dekantieren "Au Douze")?

DRT wrote:Karl Marx (Das Kapital)?

no

flash_uk wrote:Asparagus

If you can't play sensibly I'll call your mother to take you home

DRT wrote:Wolfgang Starz {a.k.a. WS1} (die Philosophie des Dekantieren "Au Douze")?

Wow, is this for real? No but I'm intrigued.

LGTrotter wrote:Derek the Dry

Much chuckling here. DtD indeed.

jdaw1 wrote:

LGTrotter wrote:Derek the Dry

Much chuckling here. DtD indeed.

But soon it will be Derek the Slim

Hagel.

Immanuel Kant (Kritik der reinen Vernunft)?

Adorno?

Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus)?

Antonio Gramsci.

Oh please. The answer is obviously Martin Heidegger. Antonio Gramsci wasn't even German.

Sorry for the delay, Internet playing up, I think the wick in the engine went out.

No correct answer yet, Heidegger was on the opposing side in terms of his german-ness during the thirties.

LGTrotter wrote:Sorry for the delay, Internet playing up, I think the wick in the engine went out.

No correct answer yet, Heidegger was on the opposing side in terms of his german-ness during the thirties.

Oh in that case it's the great big book by.. oh, not my turn..

It's a slimmish volume FYI. And all the guesses beginning with 'H' have set my pulses racing. But haven't been right, yet.

*prepares for no more guesses beginning with 'H'*

LGTrotter wrote:It's a slimmish volume FYI. And all the guesses beginning with 'H' have set my pulses racing. But haven't been right, yet.

*prepares for no more guesses beginning with 'H'*

Well in that case.. Could someone guess please?

Adolf Hitler?

Jürgen Habermas. I presume it was The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Really not such a terrifying read.

Nope.

A bottle of 15 yo H+H Verdelho and the duchess of malfi. Lovely.

Gah.

djewesbury wrote:Gah.

I cannot divine your meaning.

LGTrotter wrote:

djewesbury wrote:Gah.

I cannot divine your meaning.

Should have read the book then shouldn't you.

Max Horkheimer?

AW77 wrote:Max Horkheimer?

The Dialectic of Enlightenment? Rather you than me.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe? (Democracy: The God That Failed.)

AW77 wrote:Max Horkheimer?

No

jdaw1 wrote:Hans-Hermann Hoppe? (Democracy: The God That Failed.)

No.

Whoever knew there were so many German philosophers beginning with H.

Wilhelm von Humboldt (Prüfung der Untersuchungen über die Urbewohner Hispaniens vermittelst der vaskischen Sprache)?

Reddit. No.

AW77 wrote:As it is not my turn, I would like to amuse with a little interlude and refer to Monty Python's "Philosopher Football":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2gJamguN04

Great clip


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Husserl? (Pardon the spelling, if incorrect)


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Further clue required. You said that this was someone 'on the other side' to Heidegger in terms of his German-ness. Or did you say 'his'? Did you even say that the H was the surname? Perhaps it's Hannah Arendt? She was 'on the other side' of Heidegger philosophically, but also, for some time, in his bed.

CaliforniaBrad wrote:Husserl?

At last, my manumission. Thank-you. If you want to be off the hook of quizmaster the title of the book is needed.

Go on, you know you want to

As you guys seem to like my little amusements, here is another Monty Python clip related to philosophy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJkO-EKRVd0

LGTrotter wrote:

CaliforniaBrad wrote:Husserl?

At last, my manumission. Thank-you. If you want to be off the hook of quizmaster the title of the book is needed.

Go on, you know you want to

Oh, it's the Phenomenology of Thingummyjig..

AW77 wrote:As you guys seem to like my little amusements, here is another Monty Python clip related to philosophy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJkO-EKRVd0

Rule no. 6 was clearly inspired by the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club.

djewesbury wrote:

LGTrotter wrote:

CaliforniaBrad wrote:Husserl?

At last, my manumission. Thank-you. If you want to be off the hook of quizmaster the title of the book is needed.

Go on, you know you want to

Oh, it's the Phenomenology of Thingummyjig..

Exactly, well near enough for you to slip in a question if you want to.

LGTrotter wrote:

djewesbury wrote:

LGTrotter wrote:

CaliforniaBrad wrote:Husserl?

At last, my manumission. Thank-you. If you want to be off the hook of quizmaster the title of the book is needed.

Go on, you know you want to

Oh, it's the Phenomenology of Thingummyjig..

Exactly, well near enough for you to slip in a question if you want to.

*huzzah*
or should that be *huzzerl*

djewesbury wrote:Rule no. 6 was clearly inspired by the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club.

seems to have copied, from the mentioned august institution, the rule “A quorum shall be the number present.”

LGTrotter wrote:

CaliforniaBrad wrote:Husserl?

At last, my manumission. Thank-you. If you want to be off the hook of quizmaster the title of the book is needed.

Go on, you know you want to

I avoided trying the book as I do like posing the questions!

Hmmm a bit of thought is required. I'll pose one within the hour.


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Here in the states, our election system is different than the parliamentary system. In areas where one party has clear dominance, there are meaningful primary elections to represent the party that function, essentially, as the actual election and get a lot of press.

In Idaho, they recently had a televised debate for the dominant party's primary race for the governor's seat at the head of state government. One candidate at the debate has run for president in the past and referenced this (including where he lived) during the debate. Who was it?


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Arnold Schwarzenegger?

DRT wrote:Arnold Schwarzenegger?

Don't think it can be - don't Presidential candidates have to be US-born? Otherwise Arnie would probably have been president years ago.