TheBookofDeadPhilosophers

Praise for Simon Critchley's THE BOOK OF DEAD PHILOSOPHERS “A provocative and engrossing invitation to think about the human condition and what philosophy can and can't do to illuminate it.” —Financial Times “Concise, witty and oddly heartening.” —New Statesman (A 2008 Book of the Year) “Full of wonderful absurdities… Extremely enjoyable.” — The Independent (London) “Simon Critchley is probably the sharpest and most lucid philosopher writing in English today.” —Tom McCarthy, author of Remainder “Ingenious… Packed with great stories.” — Time Out London “A tremendous addition to an all too sparse literature… Brilliant, entertaining, informative.” —New Humanist (UK) “A fabulous concept… [Critchley writes] with dash, humour and an eye for scandalous detail.” — The Vancouver Sun “[Critchley is] among the hippest of (living) British philosophers.” —The Book Bench, newyorker.com “Surprisingly good fun… Worthy of the prose writings of Woody Allen… Not the least of the pleasures of this odd book, lighthearted and occasionally facetious as it is, is that in surveying a chronological history of philosophers it provides a sweep ......