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The Book Of Dead Philosophers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 283

The Book Of Dead Philosophers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-08-04
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  • Publisher: Granta Books

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).

Marco Polo’s Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Marco Polo’s Book

Marco Polo and his book may seem to have been well served by scholars, yet the majority have been concerned to write about his travels in Asia, what he did or did not see, and how useful he is as a source on the East. John Critchley’s subject, on the other hand, is the text of Polo’s book itself and the political and ideological context - the crusades, the Mongol missions, the French presence in Italy - in which it was put together by its author(s), and read by its audience. The homogeneity of the ’original’ Franco-Italian text and the accepted relationship between this text and the Latin recensions is tested by computer analysis. An examination of vocabulary and other textual featur...

On Humour
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 145

On Humour

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-08-26
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humour and about what it is to be human. It will fascinate and intrigue anyone with a sense of humour.

The Faith of the Faithless
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 303

The Faith of the Faithless

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-02-01
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  • Publisher: Verso Books

The return to religion has perhaps become the dominant cliché of contemporary theory, which rarely offers anything more than an exaggerated echo of a political reality dominated by religious war. Somehow, the secular age seems to have been replaced by a new era, where political action flows directly from metaphysical conflict. The Faith of the Faithless asks how we might respond. Following Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding, this new book builds on its philosophical and political framework, also venturing into the questions of faith, love, religion and violence. Should we defend a version of secularism and quietly accept the slide into a form of theism—or is there another way? From Rousseau’s politics and religion to the return to St. Paul in Taubes, Agamben and Badiou, via explorations of politics and original sin in the work of Schmitt and John Gray, Critchley examines whether there can be a faith of the faithless, a belief for unbelievers. Expanding on his debate with Slavoj Žižek, Critchley concludes with a meditation on the question of violence, and the limits of non-violence.

Bowie
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Bowie

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Notes on My Family
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Notes on My Family

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-10-18
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Time Lived, Without Its Flow
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 59

Time Lived, Without Its Flow

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-10-09
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  • Publisher: Picador

'I work to earth my heart.' Time Lived, Without Its Flow is an astonishing, unflinching essay on the nature of grief from critically acclaimed poet Denise Riley. From the horrific experience of maternal grief Riley wrote her lauded collection Say Something Back, a modern classic of British poetry. This essay is a companion piece to that work, looking at the way time stops when we lose someone suddenly from our lives. A book of two discrete halves, the first half is formed of diary-like entries written by Riley after the news of her son’s death, the entries building to paint a live portrait of loss. The second half is a ruminative post script written some years later with Riley looking back...

Out of Everywhere 2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Out of Everywhere 2

In 1996, Reality Street published Out of Everywhere, the first anthology of its kind of innovative poetry by women in North America and the British Isles. Here, 20 years later, is the long-awaited follow-up, including the following 44 poets: Sascha Akhtar, Amy De'Ath, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Andrea Brady, Lee Ann Brown, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Mairead Byrne, Jennifer Cooke, Corina Copp, Emily Critchley, Jean Day, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Carrie Etter, Kai Fierle-Hedrick, Heather Fuller, Susana Gardner, Susan Gevirtz, Elizabeth James/Frances Presley, Lisa Jarnot, Christine Kennedy, Myung Mi Kim, Frances Kruk, Francesca Lisette, Sophie Mayer, Carol Mirakove, Marianne Morris, Erin Moure, Jennifer Moxley, Redell Olsen, Holly Pester, Vanessa Place, Sophie Robinson, Lisa Samuels, Kaia Sand, Susan M Schultz, Eleni Sikelianos, Zoe Skoulding, Juliana Spahr, Elizabeth Treadwell, Catherine Wagner, Carol Watts, Sara Wintz, Lissa Wolsak. A limited-edition CD of audio work by nine of these poets accompanies this anthology, and is available for sale separately, exclusively from the Reality Street website while stocks last."

Summary of Peter Catapano & Simon Critchley's The Stone Reader
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 99

Summary of Peter Catapano & Simon Critchley's The Stone Reader

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 This book is about what philosophers are and who cares about them. It’s a collection of essays and arguments by The New York Times’ philosophy series, The Stone. #2 There is a lot of philosophy being done. It’s being done by people who care about it and are willing to defend it. It’s not going anywhere any time soon. #3 The Stone is a collection of essays by professional philosophers. It is not a textbook, but an anthology of contemporary essays and arguments that we hope will engage readers and reward many readings. #4 Philosophy is not going anywhere any time soon. The Stone is a collection of essays by professional philosophers that aims to engage readers and reward many readings.

Summary of Peter Catapano & Simon Critchley's Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 58

Summary of Peter Catapano & Simon Critchley's Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 A meaningful life is not just valued, but also valuable. It is distinct from a happy life or a morally good one. A meaningful life is worthwhile, and it is felt by the person living it. #2 A life has a trajectory, and it can be narratively conceived. A life is not an unrelated series of actions or projects or states of being. A life has, we might say, a thickness. It is lived in a temporal thickness. #3 We must ask ourselves what makes our lives meaningful, and why we should care about them. The answer is that a meaningful life is one that is filled with objects of objective attractiveness. These are rarely the themes of a shopping or investing life. #4 The activity of philosophy begins with Socrates, who did not write. Plato and others wrote down stories about him, and the center of a vivid philosophical culture is often held by figures who do not write but who exist only through the stories that are told about them.