Very Little ... Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy and Literature (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy) - Softcover

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Critchley, Simon

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9780415340496: Very Little ... Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy and Literature (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy)
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ISBN 10: 0415340497 ISBN 13: 9780415340496
Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

Very Little ... Almost Nothing puts the question of the meaning of life back at the centre of intellectual debate. Its central concern is how we can find a meaning to human finitude without recourse to anything that transcends that finitude. A profound but secular meditation on the theme of death, Critchley traces the idea of nihilism through Blanchot, Levinas, Jena Romanticism and Cavell, culminating in a reading of Beckett, in many ways the hero of the book.
In this second edition, Simon Critchley has added a revealing and extended new preface, and a new chapter on Wallace Stevens which reflects on the idea of poetry as philosophy.

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About the Author

Simon Critchley is Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate Faculty, New School University, New York and at the University of Essex. He is author and editor of many books including The Ethics of Deconstruction and On Humour(also published by Routledge).

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415340497
ISBN 13 
9780415340496
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Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
308
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