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

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.

Author: Simon Critchley
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05/20/2004
Series: Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.42w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780415340496
2nd Edition