困扰行为就在我们身边：大谈阴谋论的叔叔，用更大音量重复你观点的同事，无法保持两米距离的通勤者，我们的生活被这些行为所困扰。但是，该如何解决这一永恒的问题呢？

马克西姆·罗弗尔（Maxime Rovere）是一位哲学家，他毕生致力于研究人类互动方式和早期启蒙运动。在本书中，他把注意力转向了最阴暗的知识角落，以热情、机智、智慧，阐明了对困扰行为的新理解，审视了我们与他人和自我的关系，提供了应对困扰行为的工具和策略，甚至揭示了如何防止自己做出困扰行为（因为我们总是别人眼中的笨蛋）。

这本书由大卫·贝罗斯（David Bellos）翻译，为应对身边的困扰行为提供了博学、愉快、亟需的解决方案。

Idiocy is all around us: whether it's the uncle spouting conspiracy theories, the colleagues who repeat your point but louder, or the commuters who still can't count two metres, our lives are beset by idiots. But what is the answer to this perpetual scourge?

Maxime Rovere is a philosopher who has dedicated his life to studying the ways we interact, and the Early Enlightenment. Here he turns his attention to the murkiest of intellectual corners. With warmth, wit and wisdom, he illuminates a new understanding of idiots, one which examines our relations to others and our own ego, offers tools and strategies to dismantle the most desperate of idiotic situations, and even reveals how to stop being the idiots ourselves (because we're always someone else's idiot).

Expertly translated by David Bellos, this is an erudite, enjoyable and much-needed solution to a most familiar vexation.