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An edition of The Book of Dead Philosophers (2008)

The Book of Dead Philosophers

First Vintage Books Edition
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In this collection of brief lives (and deaths) of nearly two hundred of the world’s greatest thinkers, noted philosopher Simon Critchley creates a register of mortality that is tragic, amusing, absurd, and exemplary. From the self-mocking haikus of Zen masters on their deathbeds to the last words of Christian saints and modern-day sages, this irresistible book contains much to inspire both amusement and reflection.

Informed by Critchley’s acute insight, scholarly intelligence, and sprightly wit, each entry tells its own tale, but collected together they add up to a profound and moving investigation of meaning and the possibility of happiness for us all.

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"Introduction. "This book begins from a simple assumption: what defines human life in our corner of the planet at the present time is not just fear of death, but an overwhelming _terror_ of annihilation.""

Table of Contents

INTRODUGTION Page xv
Leaming How to Die — Socrates Page xx
To Die Laughing Page xxv
Writing about Dead Philosophers Page xxxi
190 OR SO DEAD PHILOSOPHERS Page 1
Pre-Socratics, Physiologists, Sages and Sophists
Thales Page 4 Solon Page 4 Chilon Page 5 Periander Page 5 Epimenides Page 5 Anaximander Page 6 Pythagoras Page 7 Timycha Page 9 Heracleitus Page 10 Aeschylus Page 11 Anaxagoras Page 12 Parmenides Page 12 Zeno of Elea Page 12 Empedocles Page 13 Archelaus Page 15 Protagoras Page 15 Democritus Page 17 Prodicus Page 18
Platonists, Cyrenaics, Aristotelians and Cynics
Plato Page 19 Speusippus Page 21 Xenocrates Page 21 Arcesilaus Page 21 Cameades Page 21 Hegesias Page 22 Aristotle Page 22 Theophrastus Page 24 Strato Page 25 Lyco Page 25 Demetrius Page 25 Antisthenes Page 25 Diogenes Page 26 Crates of Thebes Page 28 Hipparchia Page 28 Metrocles Page 29 Menippus Page 30
Sceptics, Stoics and Epicureans
Anaxarchus Page 31 Pyrtho Page 32 Zeno of Citium Page 33 Ariston Page 34 Dionysius Page 35 Cleanthes Page 35 Chrysippus Page 36 Epicurus Page 37 Lucretius Page 40
Classical Chinese Philosophers
Kongzi (Confucius) Page 43 Laozi (Lao Tzu) Page 45 Mozi Page 46 Mengzi (Mencius) Page 47 Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu) Page 47 Han Feizi Page 51 Zen and the Art of Dying Page 52
Romans (Serious and Ridiculous) and Neoplatonists
Cicero Page 55 Seneca Page 56 Petronius Page 59 Epictetus Page 60 Polemo of Laodicea Page 62 Peregrinus Proteus Page 62 Marcus Aurelius Page 63 Plotinus Page 64 Hypatia Page 66
The Deaths of Christian Saints
St. Paul Page 69 Origen Page 71 St. Antony Page 73 St. Gregory of Nyssa Page 75 St. Augustine Page 76 Boethius Page 79
Medieval Philosophers: Christian, Islamic and Judaic
The Venerable Bede Page 83 John Scottus Eriugena Page 84 Al-Farabi Page 85 Avicenna (Ibn Sina) Page 86 St. Anselm Page 88 Solomon Ibn Gabirol Page 89 Abelard Page 89 Averroës (Ibn Rushd) Page 91 Moses Maimonides Page 93 Shahab al-din Suhrawardi Page 94
Philosophy in the Latin Middle Ages
Albert the Great Page 95 St. Thomas Aquinas Page 95 St. Bonaventure Page 98 Ramon Llull Page 98 Siger of Brabant Page 99 St. John Duns Scotus Page 100 William of Ockham Page 101
Renaissance, Reformation and Scientific Revolution
Marsilio Ficino Page 103 Pico della Mirandola Page 104 Machiavelli Page 105 Erasmus Page 106 St. Thomas More Page 107 Luther Page 108 Copemnicus Page 109 Tycho Brahe Page 110 Petrus Ramus Page 111 Montaigne Page 111 Giordano Bruno Page 114 Galileo Page 115 Bacon Page 116 Campanella Page 117
Rationalists (Material and Immaterial), Empiricists and Religious Dissenters
Grotius Page 119 Hobbes Page 119 Descartes Page 121 Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia Page 124 Gassendi Page 125 La Rochefoucauld Page 126 Pascal Page 127 Geulinex Page 129 Anne Conway Page 130 Locke Page 131 Damaris Cudworth Page 134 Spinoza Page 135 Malebranche Page 138 Leibniz Page 139 Vico Page 140 Shaftesbury Page 141 Toland Page 142 Berkeley Page 143
Philosophes, Materialists and Sentimentalists
Montesquieu Page 145 Voltaire Page 146 Radicati di Passerano Page 148 Madame du Chatelet Page 150 La Mettrie Page 151 Hume Page 153 Rousseau Page 155 Diderot Page 157
Many Germans and Some Non-Germans
Winckelmann Page 159 Kant Page 160 Burke Page 162 Wollstonecraft Page 163 Condorcet Page 164 Bentham Page 164 Goethe Page 166 Schiller Page 167 Fichte Page 167 Hegel Page 168 Holderlin Page 170 Schelling Page 171 Novalis Page 172 Kleist Page 173 Schopenhauer Page 174 Heine Page 176 Feuerbach Page 176 Stimer Page 177
The Masters of Suspicion and Some Unsuspicious Americans
Emerson Page 179 Thoreau Page 180 Mill Page 181 Darwin Page 181 Kierkegaard Page 182 Marx Page 184 William James Page 185 Nietzsche Page 187 Freud Page 189 Bergson Page 191 Dewey Page 192
The Long Twentieth Century I: Philosophy in Wartime
Husserl Page 193 Santayana Page 194 Croce Page 195 Gentile Page 196 Gramsci Page 196 Russell Page 197 Schlick Page 198 Lukdcs Page 199 Rosenzweig Page 200 Wittgenstein Page 202 Heidegger Page 204 Camap Page 206 Edith Stein Page 207 Benjamin Page 208
The Long Twentieth Century II: Analtics, Continentals, a Few Moribunds and a Near-death Experience
Gadamer Page 211 Lacan Page 212 Adomo Page 214 Levinas Page 216 Sartre Page 218 Beauvoir Page 220 Arendt Page 221 Merleau-Ponty Page 223 Quine Page 224 Weil Page 225 Ayer Page 226 Camus Page 229 Ricoeur Page 230 Barthes Page 230 Davidson Page 230 Althusser Page 232 Rawls Page 233 Lyotard Page 234 Fanon Page 235 Deleuze Page 237 Foucault Page 238 Baudrillard Page 240 Derrida Page 240 Debord Page 243 Dominique Janicaud Page 244 Simon Critchley Page 245 LAST WORDS: Creatureliness Page 247 GEOGRAPHICAL DETAILS AND THANKS Page 251 BIBLIOGRAPHY Page 253

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Genre
Anecdotes
Other Titles
Libro de los filósofos muertos

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
190 22
Library of Congress
B72.C68 2009, B72 .C68 2009

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxxviii, 265p.
Number of pages
265
Dimensions
23 x x centimeters

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Open Library
OL22672079M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
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ISBN 13
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2008047719
OCLC/WorldCat
699086618, 226357651
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Amazon ID (ASIN)
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