Read chapters 1-7

As you read, answer the following questions:

1. What is an anarchist in our common understanding? What is an anarchist as developed in the man who is Thursday? Pay close attention to the dialogue in Chapters 1-2.

2. Who is Joseph Chamberlain? What is the significance of his name as the password to the club?

3. Consider the poem in the book dedication. What is its meaning, and how is it related to the book?

4. The policeman in chapter 4 mentions philosopher detectives. Compare this concept to Socrates’s philosopher kings in The Republic.