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Very little-- almost nothing : death, philosophy, 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, C...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Warwick studies in European philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 276 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-269) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203462939 9780203462935 0415340489 9780415340489 9780415340496 0415340497 9786610077984 6610077983 9781134297757 1134297750 9781134297702 113429770X 9781134297740 1134297742 1280077980 9781280077982 |