Based on the hit BBC Radio 4 series ‘Rob Newman's Total Eclipse of Descartes', Rob's whirlwind tour of philosophy explores 3000 years of good and bad ideas from Pythagoras to d driverless cars, by way of levitating Buddhist monks, Pavlov's dogs, Jean-Paul Sartre's mum, Fat Man On A Bridge, T. Rex, Morrissey and wire monkeys. In a world gone crazy, can philosophy help?