If Minds Had Toes: A Novel

While working for the summer at Cod Almighty, his local fish and chip shop, Ben Warner meets Lila, an unusual young woman, who makes him the unwitting guinea pig in a bet--between Socrates, president of the World of Ideas for more than two millennia, and his arch-rival Wittgenstein--over whether or not philosophy can improve your life. Original. 20,000 first printing.