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The Book Of Dead Philosophers Simon Critchley

The Book Of Dead Philosophers By Simon Critchley

The Book Of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley


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Summary

The question of what constitutes a 'good death' has been a central preoccupation of philosophers since ancient times. This book looks at 190 philosophers' often bizarre deaths and offers tales of madness, murder and pathos.

The Book Of Dead Philosophers Summary

The Book Of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley

Starting from the premise that philosophers' deaths have been as interesting as their lives, Simon Critchley looks at the strange circumstances in which some philosophers have died and then confronts the big themes - in this case, what 'a good death' means and how to live with the knowledge of death. The book consists of short entries on various philosophers, cataloguing the manner of their demises and linking this to their central ideas, from the Pre-Socratics to Rousseau, Kant and Nietzsche among many others. The book concludes with Critchley's thoughts on the ideal of the philosophical death as a way of denouncing contemporary delusions and sophistries, what Francis Bacon saw as the Idols of the Tribe, the Den, the Market-Place and the Theatre (incidentally, Bacon died in a particularly cold winter in London in 1626 from a cold contracted after trying to stuff a chicken with snow as an experiment in refrigeration).

About Simon Critchley

Simon Critchley is Professor of Philosophy at the New School in New York. He is the author of many books, most recently On Heidegger's Being and Time and Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance and has also written about the philosophy of humour and poetry. He was born in the UK lives in Brooklyn.

Additional information

GOR001782824
9781847080790
1847080790
The Book Of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Granta Books
20091005
336
N/A
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