Disobedient: An Anti-Manual of Critical Thinking

Disobedient: An Anti-Manual of Critical Thinking starts from an uncomfortable idea: thinking is not about obedience, but about risking freedom. Rather than offering formulas or certainties, the book suggests that critical thinking means breaking with what is given, questioning even what has shaped us, and accepting the conflict that comes with it.

Written in an aphoristic style, the text unfolds as a journey. It begins with disobedience as the condition of thought, moves through the tensions within education between teaching and training, expands into democracy and power, and reflects on the relationship between freedom, ethics, and collective life. It ultimately returns to what matters most: lived experience and the search for meaning.

This is not a manual, nor does it try to teach how to think. Instead, it invites the reader to do so—to doubt, to feel discomfort, to let go of certainties. In a world that celebrates critical thinking but avoids its consequences, this book takes it seriously. Here, thinking is a form of rupture—and a way of being in the world.