This is a review for Hector Hawton's Philospohy for Pleasure, which I could not find doing a search on Amazon, rather than The Feast of Unreason, so that's why I'm writing this here instead. I hope Amazon will include this review in this section, because I have to say what a wonderful little book this is. I've read dozen's of introductory books on philosophy and this book, by an amateur philosopher who pursued it as a hobby rather than a professional philosopher, is quite simply the best primer ever written in the area. Hawton's book is clear, concise and even pithy. He cuts through all the jargon and the tangle of philosophical schools and ideas to distill what is really important about them. An important facet of his presentation is how each idea improved over previous thinking, and then was taken up and influenced and was modified by later philosophers. The book is only a couple of hundred pages long, but after reading this you will be prepared to take on more serious readings on the subject.