ABSTRACT
Evidently, almost all philosophising purports to exhibit some thinking and recent decades have, in this vein, seen the appearance of several volumes dedicated to specific forms of thinking, often in the guise of philosophical methodologies. To this end, what follows is devoted to the multiple ways in which philosophers have defined their own process of thinking and thereby reflected on their own struggle to think. What follows neither 'explodes' the canon by attending solely to forgotten philosophers and traditions, nor does it comprehensively cover all the canonical bases. Richard Bett begins with a fine-grained analysis of what kind of philosophical thinking is possible once, following the Sceptics, one suspends all claims about how things really are. Finally, Gil Anidjar concludes the volume with an intervention from outside, marshalling the resources of anthropology, critical theory and black studies to critique the fetishization of 'thinking' in the Western philosophical tradition.
