The Book of Dead Philosophers - 9780307390431, Simon Critchley, paperback

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Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
Type
Novel
Book Series
Historical
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Features
Illustrated
Original Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Intended Audience
Young Adults, Adults
Edition
First Edition
ISBN
9780307390431
Book Title
Book of Dead Philosophers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Length
9 in
Publication Year
2009
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.8 in
Author
Simon Critchley
Genre
Philosophy, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Topic
Philosophers, History & Surveys / General, Death & Dying, Individual Philosophers
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Width
5 in
Number of Pages
304 Pages
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307390438
ISBN-13
9780307390431
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66539484

Product Key Features

Book Title
Book of Dead Philosophers
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Philosophers, History & Surveys / General, Death & Dying, Individual Philosophers
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Philosophy, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Simon Critchley
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
5 in

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Trade
LCCN
2008-047719
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"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), "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), "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)
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
190 B
Table Of Content
INTRODUCTION Learning How to Die - Socrates To Die Laughing Writing about Dead Philosophers 190 OR SO DEAD PHILOSOPHERS Pre-Socratics, Physiologists, Sages and Sophists Thales * Solon * Chilon * Periander * Epimenides * Anaximander * Pythagoras * Timycha * Heracleitus * Aeschylus * Anaxagoras * Parmenides * Zeno of Elea * Empedocles * Archelaus * Protagoras * Democritus * Prodicus Platonists, Cyrenaics, Aristotelians and Cynics Plato * Speusippus * Xenocrates * Arcesilaus * Carneades * Hegesias * Aristotle * Theophrastus * Strato * Lyco * Demetrius * Antisthenes * Diogenes * Crates of Thebes * Hipparchia * Metrocles * Menippus Sceptics, Stoics and Epicureans Anaxarchus * Pyrrho * Zeno of Citium * Ariston * Dionysius * Cleanthes * Chrysippus * Epicurus * Lucretius Classical Chinese Philosophers Kongzi (Confucius) * Laozi (Lao Tzu) * Mozi * Mengzi (Mencius) * Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu) * Han Feizi * Zen and the Art of Dying Romans (Serious and Ridiculous) and Neoplatonists Cicero * Seneca * Petronius * Epictetus * Polemo of Laodicea * Peregrinus Proteus * Marcus Aurelius * Plotinus * Hypatia The Deaths of Christian Saints St. Paul * Origen * St. Antony * St. Gregory of Nyssa * St. Augustine * Boethius Medieval Philosophers: Christian, Islamic and Judaic The Venerable Bede * John Scottus Eriugena * Al-Farabi * Avicenna (Ibn Sina) * St. Anselm * Solomon Ibn Gabirol * Abelard * Averroës (Ibn Rushd) * Moses Maimonides * Shahab al-din Suhrawardi Philosophy in the Latin Middle Ages Albert the Great * St. Thomas Aquinas * St. Bonaventure * Ramon Llull * Siger of Brabant * St. John Duns Scotus * William of Ockham Renaissance, Reformation and Scientific Revolution Marsilio Ficino * Pico della Mirandola * Machiavelli * Erasmus * St. Thomas More * Luther * Copernicus * Tycho Brahe * Petrus Ramus * Montaigne * Giordano Bruno * Galileo * Bacon * Campanella Rationalists (Material and Immaterial), Empiricists and Religious Dissenters Grotius * Hobbes * Descartes * Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia * Gassendi * La Rochefoucauld * Pascal * Geulincx * Anne Conway * Locke * Damaris Cudworth * Spinoza * Malebranche * Leibniz * Vico * Shaftesbury * Toland * Berkeley Philosophes, Materialists and Sentimentalists Montesquieu * Voltaire * Radicati di Passerano * Madame du Ch'telet * La Mettrie * Hume * Rousseau * Diderot Many Germans and Some Non-Germans Winckelmann * Kant * Burke * Wollstonecraft * Condorcet * Bentham * Goethe * Schiller * Fichte * Hegel * Hölderlin * Schelling * Novalis * Kleist * Schopenhauer * Heine * Feuerbach * Stirner The Masters of Suspicion and Some Unsuspicious Americans Emerson * Thoreau * Mill * Darwin * Kierkegaard * Marx * William James * Nietzsche * Freud * Bergson * Dewey The Long Twentieth Century I: Philosophy in Wartime Husserl * Santayana * Croce * Gentile * Gramsci * Russell * Schlick * Lukács * Rosenzweig * Wittgenstein * Heidegger * Carnap * Edith Stein * Benjamin The Long Twentieth Century II: Analytics, Continentals, a Few Moribunds and a Near-death Experience Gadamer * Lacan * Adorno * Levinas * Sartre * Beauvoir * Arendt * Merleau-Ponty * Quine * Weil * Ayer * Camus * Ricoeur * Barthes * Davidson * Althusser * Rawls * Lyotard * Fanon * Deleuze * Foucault * Baudrillard * Derrida * Debord * Dominique Janicaud * Simon Critchley LAST WORDS Creatureliness GEOGRAPHICAL DETAILS AND THANKS BIBLIOGRAPHY
Synopsis
In this collection of brief lives (and deaths) of nearly two hundred of the world's greatest thinkers, noted philosopher Simon Critchley creates a register of mortality that is tragic, amusing, absurd, and exemplary. From the self-mocking haikus of Zen masters on their deathbeds to the last words of Christian saints and modern-day sages, this irresistible book contains much to inspire both amusement and reflection. Informed by Critchley's acute insight, scholarly intelligence, and sprightly wit, each entry tells its own tale, but collected together they add up to a profound and moving investigation of meaning and the possibility of happiness for us all.
LC Classification Number
B72.C68 2009

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