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Very Little...Almost Nothing
Taylor and Francis 1997; US$ 35.95The 'death of man', the 'end of history' and even philosophy are strong and troubling currents running through contemporary debates. Yet since Nietzsche's heralding of the 'death of god', philosophy has been unable to explain the question of finitude. Very Little...Almost Nothing goes to the heart of this problem through an exploration of Blanchot's... more...
Things Merely Are
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 31.95This book is an invitation to read poetry. Simon Critchley argues that poetry enlarges life with a range of observation, power of expression and attention to language that eclipses any other medium. In a rich engagement with the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Critchley reveals that poetry also contains deep and important philosophical insight. Above all,... more...
Very Little ... Almost Nothing
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 40.95Very 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,... more...
Continental Philosophy
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 9.99Simon Critchley discusses the ideas and approaches of philosophers such as Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Habermas, Foucault, and Derrida, and introduces key concepts such as existentialism, nihilism, and phenomenology by explaining their place in the continental tradition. more...
The Book of Dead Philosophers
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.95?To philosophize is to learn how to die.? ?Cicero; assassinated by order of Mark Antony ?One who no longer is cannot suffer.? ?Lucretius; suicide, allegedly driven mad by a love potion ?Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.? ?Hobbes; died in bed, age 91 In this collection of brief lives (and deaths) of nearly two hundred of the world's... more...
On Humour
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 24.95Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley skilfully probes some of the most perennial but least understood aspects of humour, such as our tendency to laugh at animals and our bodies, why we mock... more...
The Cambridge Companion to Levinas
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 28.00Emmanuel Levinas is now widely recognised alongside Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre as one of the most important Continental philosophers of the twentieth century. His abiding concern was the primacy of the ethical relation to the other person and his central thesis was that ethics is first philosophy. more...
Laclau
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 45.95Laclau: A Critical Reader is the first full-length critical appraisal of Laclau's work and includes contributions from several leading philosophers and theorists. The first section examines Laclau's theory that the contest between universalism and particularism provides much of the philosophical background to political and social struggle, taking... more...
How to Stop Living and Start Worrying
Wiley 2013; US$ 49.95The question of how to lead a happy and meaningful life has been at the heart of philosophical debate since time immemorial. Today, however, these questions seem to be addressed not by philosophers but self-help gurus, who frantically champion the individual's quest for self-expression and self-realization; the desire to become authentic. Against these... more...
Stay, Illusion!
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 25.00The figure of Hamlet haunts our culture like the ghost haunts Shakespeare?s melancholy Dane. Arguably, no literary work is more familiar to us. Everyone knows at least six words from Hamlet, and most people know many more. Yet the play?Shakespeare?s longest?is more than ?passing strange,? and it becomes even more complex when considered closely. ... more...









