The Book of Dead Philosophers - Brossura

Critchley, Simon

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ISBN 10: 0307390438 ISBN 13: 9780307390431

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009

Riassunto

Starting from the premise that philosophers' deaths have been as interesting as their lives, the author describes the deaths of more than 190 philosophers in quirky tales that confront such larger issues as the meaning of life, the possibility of happiness, and the role of death in promoting a richer, more fulfilling life. Original. 35,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“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)

L'autore:

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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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0307390438
• ISBN 13: 9780307390431
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304