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Very Little ... Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy and Literature

By Simon Critchley

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
9780415340489, 0415340489, 0415340497, 9780415340496
LCC
B791.C75 2004
Open Library ID
OL22587575M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1517408 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
304\305
Topic
Literature Literary
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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