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1	The Book of Dead Philosophers more books like this by Simon Critchley add to wishlist Starting from the premise that philosophers' deaths have been as interesting as their lives, Simon Critchley pulls readers in with quirky stories of how philosophers died and then confronts the big themes - in this case, what 'a good death' means and how to live with the knowledge of death and free from what he calls 'delusions and sophistries'. ... see all copies from $7.31! new only from $8.51! \| SVS
2	Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction more books like this by Simon Critchley add to wishlist Simon Critchley's Very Short Introduction shows that Continental philosophy encompasses a distinct set of philosophical traditions and practices, with a compelling range of problems all too often ignored by the analytic tradition. He discusses the ideas and approaches of philosophers such as Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, ... see all copies from $5.44! new only from $7.27! \| first editions
3	Philosophy in 30 Days by Dominique Janicaud, Lisabeth During (Translator), Simon Critchley (Foreword by) add to wishlist Plunge straight in and try out philosophy for real in just ten minutes a day. This book may not turn you into a great philosopher in thirty days, but it will show you how to begin to think philosophically. Dominique Janicaud's shows that philosophy doesn't have to be intimidating. It can even be fun. He invites the reader to consider some of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.05!
4	On Humour more books like this by Simon Critchley add to wishlist On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley skilfully probes some of the most perennial but least understood aspects of humour: why is that we mock death with laughter? If humour is uniquely human, why do we laugh at animals so much? Is joking a private matter, or do ... see all copies from $12.59! new only from $15.50! \| SVS
5	Very Little ... Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy and Literature more books like this by Simon Critchley add to wishlist ' This is a very brave book ...it makes philosophical conversation possible again after two decades of pragmatist intolerance.' - Roger Poole, Parallax '(T)his is an often beautifully written philosophical act of mourning ...It also commands respect because it obliges one to examine the fictions one employs to avoid really doing philosophy. ... see all copies from $29.84! new only from $29.84! \| SVS
6	The Cambridge Companion to Levinas more books like this by Simon Critchley (Editor), Robert Bernasconi (Editor) add to wishlist Emmanuel Levinas is now widely recognised alongside Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre as one of the most important Continental philosophers of the twentieth century. His abiding concern was the primacy of the ethical relation to the other person and his central thesis was that ethics is first philosophy. His work has also had a profound impact ... see all copies from $18.00! new only from $19.22!
7	Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance more books like this by Simon Critchley add to wishlist This work talks about a new political ethics that confronts and faces down the injustices of the present. "Infinitely Demanding" is the clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchley's influential views on philosophy, ethics and politics. Part diagnosis of the times, part theoretical analysis of the impasses and possibilities ... see all copies from $10.57! new only from $10.57! \| SVS
8	A Companion to Continental Philosophy more books like this by Simon Critchley (Editor), William Schroeder (Editor) add to wishlist With 58 original essays by major experts, this companion volume provides the first survey of all the major figures of 19th- and 20th-century Continental philosophy. Each essay explains and develops the key ideas of a central figure or movement as they relate to such areas as art theory, cultural studies, social and political theory, psychology, ... see all copies from $16.39! new only from $38.77! \| SVS
9	Deconstruction and Pragmatism more books like this by Simon Critchley, Critchley Simon, Chantal Mouffe (Editor) add to wishlist Deconstruction and pragmatism constitute two of the major intellectual influences on the contemporary philosophy/literary theory scene, influences personified in the work of Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty. Both Rortian pragmatism, which draws the consequences of post-war developments in Anglo-American philosophy, and Derridian deconstruction, ... see all copies from $15.52! new only from $30.68! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Laughing in a Foreign Language more books like this by Mami Kataoka (Text by), Simon Critchley (Contributions by) add to wishlist In a time of increasing globalisation, this book questions whether humour can only be appreciated by people with similar cultural, political or historical backgrounds and memories, or whether laughter can act as a catalyst for understanding what you are not familiar with. Do laughter and humour transcend difference and language, or are they ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $23.07! \| first editions
11 view cover	Laclau: A Critical Reader more books like this by Simon Critchley (Editor), Oliver Marchart (Editor) add to wishlist Over the last thirty years, the work of the political theorist Ernesto Laclau has reinvigorated radical political and social theory. Taking concepts previously ignored or unused within mainstream political theory, such as the political, hegemony, discourse, identity, and representation, he has made them fundamental to thinking about politics and ... see all copies from $27.54! new only from $36.18! \| SVS
12 view cover	Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary French Thought more books like this by Simon Critchley add to wishlist In Ethics - Politics - Subjectivity, Simon Critchley takes up three questions at the centre of contemporary theoretical debate: What is ethical experience? What can be said of the subject who has this experience? What, if any, is the relation of ethical experience to politics? These questions are approached by way of a critical confrontation with ... see all copies from $8.15! new only from $8.15! \| SVS
13 view cover	Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens more books like this by Simon Critchley, Critchley Simon add to wishlist This book is an invitation to read poetry. Simon Critchley argues that poetry enlarges life with a range of observation, power of expression and attention to language that eclipses any other medium. In a rich engagement with the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Critchley reveals that poetry also contains deep and important philosophical insight. Above ... see all copies from $25.62! new only from $25.62! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Ethics of Deconstruction more books like this by Simon Critchley add to wishlist It is now widely accepted that The Ethics of Deconstruction was the first book to argue for the ethical turn in Derrida's work. Critchley shows as powerfully as possible how deconstruction and persuasive ethical consequences are vital to our thinking through of questions relating to politics and democracy. Parts of the book have been published in ... see all copies from $24.00! new only from $33.84!
15 view cover	Deconstructive Subjectivities more books like this by Simon Critchley add to wishlist see all copies from $22.15! new only from $27.54! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas more books like this by Simon Critchley add to wishlist In opposition to the polemics claiming that the work of Jacques Derrida is a species of nihilistic textual free play that suspends all questions of value and is therefore immoral and politically pernicious, this book argues that Derridian deconstruction can and indeed should be understood as an ethical demand, provided that ethics is understood in ... see all copies from $34.50! new only from $80.35! \| first editions
17	Humor by Simon Critchley add to wishlist Humor is een fascinerend, prachtig geschreven en komisch boek over wat homor ons kan vertellen over onze menselijke natuur. Van de oudheid tot aan de moderne tijd en puttend uit het werk van een breed scala aan auteurs, in het bijzonder Swift, Sterne, Shaftesbury, Bergson, Beckett en Freud, keert Humor het komische binnenstebuiten en onthult ons ... see all copies from $15.10! new only from $24.93!
18 view cover	Deconstruction and Pragmatism more books like this by Chantal Mouffe, Critchley Simon, Simon Critchley add to wishlist Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty are two of the most famous living philosophers. Deconstruction and pragmatism are the two major intellectual traditions whose current influence would be unthinkable without their work. This ground-breaking book brings these two thinkers together in a critical confrontation between these two traditions. Derridean ... see all copies from $75.00! new only from $93.82! \| SVS
19 view cover	Continental Philosophy: A Critical Approach more books like this by Simon Critchley, William Ralph Schroeder, Blackwell Publishers (Creator) add to wishlist "Continental Philosophy: A Critical Approach" is a lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the key figures and philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This work includes chapters on Hegel; Marx and Western Marxism; Schopenhauer, Freud, and Bergson; Nietzsche; hermeneutics; phenomenology; existentialism; structuralism,; ... see all copies from $79.44! new only from $79.44! \| SVS
20 view cover	Laclau: Aproximaciones Cr-Ticas a Su Obra more books like this by Simon Critchley add to wishlist Durante los ltimos 30 aos, los conceptos tradicionales de la teora poltica han sido fuertemente cuestionados y en muchos casos dejados de lado. La innovadora obra de Ernesto Laclau representa uno de los intentos ms radicales de revitalizar y reformular conceptos tales como lo poltico, la hegemona del discurso, la identidad, de modo que resultan ... see all copies from $21.18! new only from $21.18! \| SVS
21 view cover	Philippe Parreno by Christine Macel (Editor), Philippe Parreno (Illustrator), Simon Critchley (Text by) add to wishlist Edited by Christine Macel. Text by Simon Critchley, Maria Lind, Beatrix Ruf. see all copies from $44.11! new only from $44.11! \| SVS
22 view cover	Very Little .... Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature more books like this by Simon Critchley add to wishlist Very Little...Almost Nothing is a passionate and challenging philosophical defence of the very question of the meaning of life. Following the nihilism that has accompanied the 'death of God' and characterised much of modernity, Simon Critchley argues that the key question becomes a matter of finding a meaning to human finitude without recourse to ... see all copies from $42.71! first editions
23 view cover	Desconstruccion y Pragmatismo by Simon Critchley, Jacques Derrida, Ernesto Laclau add to wishlist Soap-opera is a key genre in Latin America. This book analyses its textual and industrial production systems, its forms of commercialization and circulation, its entry into international markets. Mazziotti follows the path, from its beginnings, of soap opera and serial fiction production in countries where this genre has acquired paramount ... see all copies from $19.24! new only from $19.25!
24 view cover	How to Read Beauvoir more books like this by Stella Sandford, Simon Critchley (Editor) add to wishlist "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."-Simone de Beauvoir see all copies from $6.81! new only from $7.53! \| SVS
25 view cover	On the Human Condition more books like this by Dominique Janicaud, Eileen Brennan (Translator), Simon Critchley (Introduction by) add to wishlist The potential to clone, augment, and repair human beings is pushing the very concept of the human to its limit. Fantasies and metaphors of a supposedly monstrous and inhuman future increasingly dominate films, art and popular culture. "On the Human Condition" is an invigorating and fascinating exploration of where the idea of the human stands ... see all copies from $15.50! new only from $15.50! \| SVS

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