The "Handbook of Stupidity" by Dionysis Charitopoulos is a manual of self-awareness, a condensed philosophy of life centered on cognition and understanding, intelligence and foolishness, stupidity and the fool. The related phenomena are examined both from their historical and anthropological aspects and as clinical symptoms of modern life.

The author himself meaningfully notes on the back cover of the book: "Because we all underestimate the number of idiots among us and every so often we are surprised by people 'above suspicion,' we probably need to reintroduce ourselves..."

Dionysis Charitopoulos has divided his original aphorisms into 88 sections that concern an equal number of cases/observations/interpretations of human stupidity.

The book can be read from beginning to end but also without any apparent order, just like a collection of poems or aphorisms.