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The Philosopher’s Hotel features a series of rooms that are perhaps less overtly amazing but equally compelling for the right clientele: each room revolves around the life, work and philosophy of a particular philosopher. The above rooms, for example, respectively play off Georges Bataille’s concepts of sexuality and eroticism, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophies of language, ethics and mysticism and Henry David Thoreau’s obsession with time, age and nature. Other rooms revolve around famous thinkers such as Nihilist Friedrich Nietzsche...

I hear that in the Parmenides room the mini-bar does not open and the Heraclitus room has a water bed.  The hotel is in the Netherlands, so where is the Bernard Mandeville room ("Private Vices, Publick Benefits")?  Here are many more unusual hotel rooms, both the texts and photos are interesting.  And here are (supposedly) the smallest hotels and hotel rooms in the world.

Posted by Tyler Cowen on March 14, 2008 at 06:19 AM in Economics | Permalink

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I imagine the Bentham room would have the means to see what was going on in all of the other rooms?

Posted by: Bill at Mar 14, 2008 9:11:18 AM

You'd be advised to forego a nightcap in the Socrates Bar...

... and may want to try the Descartes Suite - one room for the body and one for the mid...


Posted by: misplaced trust co. at Mar 14, 2008 9:11:50 AM

I hear they scrapped the Gödel room, as it could never contain its own room number; the guests kept getting lost.

Posted by: Kat at Mar 14, 2008 9:40:58 AM

I wonder if they give suckers the Rawls Treatment, where they blindfold you, spin you around three times and let you sleep in the first room you stumble across.

Posted by: JasonL at Mar 14, 2008 10:59:51 AM

Or, for the Rawls treatment, the maids spend all their time cleaning only the very dirtiest of the rooms...

Posted by: Tyler Cowen at Mar 14, 2008 11:17:29 AM

The Thomas Hobbes room is actually your choice of two "rooms": a dungeon or outside beneath a tree.

Posted by: Franklin Harris at Mar 14, 2008 12:39:39 PM

Many guests have gone into the Zeno room, but no guest has ever come out.

Posted by: MikeP at Mar 14, 2008 1:02:57 PM

You will never know how nice the Hume room is until you experience it.

Posted by: Some Random Economist at Mar 14, 2008 1:22:02 PM

You can only stay in the Ayn Rand room if you swear an oath on your life and your love of it at the door.

Posted by: anon at Mar 14, 2008 1:34:30 PM

anon 1:34,

there is, in fact, no Ayn Rand room in the philosopher's hotel. the hoteliers attempted to construct one, but the materials were shoddy and the plans poorly thought out.

Posted by: blank at Mar 14, 2008 2:54:19 PM

And then there is the Derek Parfit room: don't lose your key, or you'll have to pay all over again (it doesn't help to show ID...that was the other you...!)

Posted by: Tyler Cowen at Mar 14, 2008 3:38:29 PM

In the Leibniz room, the hookers are free!

Posted by: Mike at Mar 14, 2008 4:33:24 PM

Plato's room, while rather sparce, is lit by the light of a much nicer room.

Also, strangely enough, the hookers are free.

Posted by: Scott Scheule at Mar 14, 2008 5:47:51 PM

Wait, Nietzsche is a nihilist? wat?

They might as well just say he was a nazi and fill the room with swastikas.

Posted by: Reticent Man at Mar 15, 2008 5:16:42 PM

Shouldn't the water bed be in the Thales room and the Heraclitus room have a fireplace?

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