Index Librorum Prohibitorum

From Galileo, Copernicus and Bruno to Sartre. From 1500 to 1966.

Examples of noteworthy figures on the Index include Sartre, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hume, Descartes, Bacon, Milton, Locke, Pascal, La Fontaine, Stendhal, Hugo, Flaubert, Beauvoir, Hobbes, Hume, Locke, Mill...

I use this Index Librorum Prohibitorum as an example of an obvious absurdity BUT the absurdities are all but obvious. Our own absurdity is ultimately difficult to recognize, because that recognition moment would have to be... absurd... that's why we will always be surrounded by very large hardcovers covering enormous absurdities...