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In this collection of brief lives (and deaths) of nearly two hundred of the world's greatest thinkers, noted philosopher Simon Critchley creates a register of mortality that is tragic, amusing, absurd, and exemplary. From the self-mocking haikus of Zen masters on their deathbeds to the last words of Christian saints and modern-day sages, this irresistible book contains much to inspire both amusement and reflection.
Informed by Critchley's acute insight, scholarly intelligence, and sprightly wit, each entry tells its own tale, but collected together they add up to a profound and moving investigation of meaning and the possibility of happiness for us all.
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A provocative and engrossing invitation to think about the human condition and what philosophy can and can't do to illuminate it.
The Financial Times
Rigorous, profound and frequently hilarious. . . . Critchley is an engaging, deadpan guide to the metaphysical necropolis. . . . At a time when much popular philosophy is either frivolous, dull or complacent, his is a bracingly serious and properly comic presence.
The Daily Telegraph (UK)"
"A provocative and engrossing invitation to think about the human condition and what philosophy can and can't do to illuminate it."
--The Financial Times "Rigorous, profound and frequently hilarious. . . . Critchley is an engaging, deadpan guide to the metaphysical necropolis. . . . At a time when much popular philosophy is either frivolous, dull or complacent, his is a bracingly serious and properly comic presence."
--The Daily Telegraph (UK)
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The Financial Times
Rigorous, profound and frequently hilarious. . . . Critchley is an engaging, deadpan guide to the metaphysical necropolis. . . . At a time when much popular philosophy is either frivolous, dull or complacent, his is a bracingly serious and properly comic presence.
The Daily Telegraph (UK)"
"A provocative and engrossing invitation to think about the human condition and what philosophy can and can't do to illuminate it."
--The Financial Times "Rigorous, profound and frequently hilarious. . . . Critchley is an engaging, deadpan guide to the metaphysical necropolis. . . . At a time when much popular philosophy is either frivolous, dull or complacent, his is a bracingly serious and properly comic presence."
--The Daily Telegraph (UK)
Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His many books include Very Little . . . Almost Nothing, The Faith of the Faithless, and The Book of Dead Philosophers. He is the series moderator of The Stone, a philosophy column in The New York Times, to which he is a frequent contributor.
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- PublisherMelbourne University Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0522855148
- ISBN 13 9780522855142
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages334
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Book Description 21.0 x 13.5cms, 298pp, very good paperback & cover (canary yellow spine black type) This book argues that estern philosophers have ben preoccupied with the idea of dying well. covers c 190 dead philosophers, beginning with the pre-Socrates, Physiologists, Sages & Sophists and ends with the 20th century analytics, continentals, a few moribunds & a near death experience. Seller Inventory # 174088
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