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UNINA9910451320103321 |
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Autore |
Critchley Simon <1960-, > |
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Titolo |
Very little-- almost nothing : death, philosophy, literature / / Simon Critchley |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-29775-0 |
1-280-07798-0 |
0-203-46293-9 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Collana |
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Warwick Studies in European Philosophy |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Philosophy, Modern |
Literature, Modern - History and criticism |
Nihilism |
Death |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-269) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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