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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.
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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 Critc
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- 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
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