This Book Needs No Title

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This Book Needs No Title</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> brings the delight and fascination with self-reference and paradox that distinguish Raymond Smullyan's popular books on logic to bear on philosophical and spiritual themes. Progressing organically from brief anecdotes paradoxes jokes and epigrams to dialogues essays and finally the marvelous novella-length parable Planet Without Laughter Smullyan uses reason to illuminate its own limits in playfully serious treatments of subjects such as egoism pessimism anxiety mysticism free will and determinism dualism Zen spontaneity and humor. No thinker has ever banished grimness more fully from his philosophy than Smullyan nor made profundity more cheerfully contagious as the uninhibited pleasure in inquiry in these pages joyfully testifies.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>