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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451320103321

Autore

Critchley Simon <1960-, >

Titolo

Very little-- almost nothing : death, philosophy, literature / / Simon Critchley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-29775-0

1-280-07798-0

0-203-46293-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Warwick Studies in European Philosophy

Disciplina

149/.8

Soggetti

Philosophy, Modern

Literature, Modern - History and criticism

Nihilism

Death

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-269) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Abbreviations; Preface to Second Edition: As my father, I have already died; Preamble: Travels in Nihilon; Il y a; Unworking romanticism; Know happiness    on Beckett; The philosophical significance of a poem    on Wallace Stevens; Notes; Acknowledgements; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 St