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The book of dead philosophers

Verfasser/in: Simon Critchley
Verlag: New York : Vintage Books, 2009, ©2008.
Ausgabe/Format Buch : Biografie : Englisch : 1st Vintage Books edAlle Ausgaben und Formate anzeigen
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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  Weiterlesen…
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Medientyp: Biografie
Dokumenttyp: Buch
Alle Autoren: Simon Critchley
ISBN: 9780307390431 : 0307390438
OCLC Nummer: 226357651
Anmerkungen: Originally published: London : Granta, 2008.
Beschreibung: xxxviii, 265 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Inhalt: Pre-Socratics, physiologists, sages and sophists -- Platonists, Cyrenaics, Aristotelians and cynics-- Sceptics, stoics and Epicureans -- Classical Chinese philosophers -- Romans (serious and ridiculous) and Neoplatonists -- The deaths of Christian saints -- Medieval philosophers: Christian, Islamic and Judaic -- Philosophy in the Latin Middle Ages -- Renaissance, reformation and scientific revolution -- Rationalists (material and immaterial), empiricists and religious dissenters -- Philosophes, materialists and sentimentalists -- Many Germans and some non-Germans -- The masters of suspicion and some unsuspicious Americans -- The long twentieth century I: philosophy in wartime -- The long twentieth century II: analytics, continentals, a few moribunds and a near-death experience.
Verfasserangabe: Simon Critchley.

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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.--From publisher description.

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