Steven H Friedman

Phalaris's Bull Steven H Friedman

The first part of the title is a metaphor. The second is not. Combining autobiography, poetry, philosophy, science and art, the play is the story of a contemporary philosopher's quest to solve what Einstein called "the riddle of the great big world." Acclaimed a "genius philosopher" by The New York Times--the first since Albert Camus, and before that, Wittgenstein--the author articulates a solution achieved not through belief or faith, theory or assumption, but at the limit of rigor.