Skip to content

Opening book details…

Can I read Very Little . . . Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy and Literature (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy) on EtoBox?

Very Little . . . Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy and Literature (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy) by Simon Critchley, Simon Critchley is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Very Little . . . Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy and Literature (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy) about?

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 Critc

Who reads Very Little . . . Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy and Literature (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Simon Critchley, Simon Critchley
Publisher
London : Routledge, 1997.
Published
1997
Language
EN
ISBN
9781134297757
Category
philosophy
Subjects
History, Philosophy, Literary Fiction
Updated
2026-03-25

Other editions & translations

More by Simon Critchley, Simon Critchley

Browse all works by Simon Critchley, Simon Critchley

Similar books