The Book of Dead Philosophers
By: Simon Critchley.
Edition: First Vintage Books Edition
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2009-02-10
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780307390431
Subjects: Philosophers -- Death; Philosophers -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes
Other titles: Libro de los filósofos muertos
First sentence: 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."
Description: 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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Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: INTRODUGTION
pagenum: xv; title: Leaming How to Die — Socrates
pagenum: xx; title: To Die Laughing
pagenum: xxv; title: Writing about Dead Philosophers
pagenum: xxxi; title: 190 OR SO DEAD PHILOSOPHERS
pagenum: 1; title: Pre-Socratics, Physiologists, Sages and Sophists; title: Thales
pagenum: 4; title: Solon
pagenum: 4; title: Chilon
pagenum: 5; title: Periander
pagenum: 5; title: Epimenides
pagenum: 5; title: Anaximander
pagenum: 6; title: Pythagoras
pagenum: 7; title: Timycha
pagenum: 9; title: Heracleitus
pagenum: 10; title: Aeschylus
pagenum: 11; title: Anaxagoras
pagenum: 12; title: Parmenides
pagenum: 12; title: Zeno of Elea
pagenum: 12; title: Empedocles
pagenum: 13; title: Archelaus
pagenum: 15; title: Protagoras
pagenum: 15; title: Democritus
pagenum: 17; title: Prodicus
pagenum: 18; title: Platonists, Cyrenaics, Aristotelians and Cynics; title: Plato
pagenum: 19; title: Speusippus
pagenum: 21; title: Xenocrates
pagenum: 21; title: Arcesilaus
pagenum: 21; title: Cameades
pagenum: 21; title: Hegesias
pagenum: 22; title: Aristotle
pagenum: 22; title: Theophrastus
pagenum: 24; title: Strato
pagenum: 25; title: Lyco
pagenum: 25; title: Demetrius
pagenum: 25; title: Antisthenes
pagenum: 25; title: Diogenes
pagenum: 26; title: Crates of Thebes
pagenum: 28; title: Hipparchia
pagenum: 28; title: Metrocles
pagenum: 29; title: Menippus
pagenum: 30; title: Sceptics, Stoics and Epicureans; title: Anaxarchus
pagenum: 31; title: Pyrtho
pagenum: 32; title: Zeno of Citium
pagenum: 33; title: Ariston
pagenum: 34; title: Dionysius
pagenum: 35; title: Cleanthes
pagenum: 35; title: Chrysippus
pagenum: 36; title: Epicurus
pagenum: 37; title: Lucretius
pagenum: 40; title: Classical Chinese Philosophers; title: Kongzi (Confucius)
pagenum: 43; title: Laozi (Lao Tzu)
pagenum: 45; title: Mozi
pagenum: 46; title: Mengzi (Mencius)
pagenum: 47; title: Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)
pagenum: 47; title: Han Feizi
pagenum: 51; title: Zen and the Art of Dying
pagenum: 52; title: Romans (Serious and Ridiculous) and Neoplatonists; title: Cicero
pagenum: 55; title: Seneca
pagenum: 56; title: Petronius
pagenum: 59; title: Epictetus
pagenum: 60; title: Polemo of Laodicea
pagenum: 62; title: Peregrinus Proteus
pagenum: 62; title: Marcus Aurelius
pagenum: 63; title: Plotinus
pagenum: 64; title: Hypatia
pagenum: 66; title: The Deaths of Christian Saints; title: St. Paul
pagenum: 69; title: Origen
pagenum: 71; title: St. Antony
pagenum: 73; title: St. Gregory of Nyssa
pagenum: 75; title: St. Augustine
pagenum: 76; title: Boethius
pagenum: 79; title: Medieval Philosophers: Christian, Islamic and Judaic; title: The Venerable Bede
pagenum: 83; title: John Scottus Eriugena
pagenum: 84; title: Al-Farabi
pagenum: 85; title: Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
pagenum: 86; title: St. Anselm
pagenum: 88; title: Solomon Ibn Gabirol
pagenum: 89; title: Abelard
pagenum: 89; title: Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
pagenum: 91; title: Moses Maimonides
pagenum: 93; title: Shahab al-din Suhrawardi
pagenum: 94; title: Philosophy in the Latin Middle Ages; title: Albert the Great
pagenum: 95; title: St. Thomas Aquinas
pagenum: 95; title: St. Bonaventure
pagenum: 98; title: Ramon Llull
pagenum: 98; title: Siger of Brabant
pagenum: 99; title: St. John Duns Scotus
pagenum: 100; title: William of Ockham
pagenum: 101; title: Renaissance, Reformation and Scientific Revolution; title: Marsilio Ficino
pagenum: 103; title: Pico della Mirandola
pagenum: 104; title: Machiavelli
pagenum: 105; title: Erasmus
pagenum: 106; title: St. Thomas More
pagenum: 107; title: Luther
pagenum: 108; title: Copemnicus
pagenum: 109; title: Tycho Brahe
pagenum: 110; title: Petrus Ramus
pagenum: 111; title: Montaigne
pagenum: 111; title: Giordano Bruno
pagenum: 114; title: Galileo
pagenum: 115; title: Bacon
pagenum: 116; title: Campanella
pagenum: 117; title: Rationalists (Material and Immaterial), Empiricists and Religious Dissenters; title: Grotius
pagenum: 119; title: Hobbes
pagenum: 119; title: Descartes
pagenum: 121; title: Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia
pagenum: 124; title: Gassendi
pagenum: 125; title: La Rochefoucauld
pagenum: 126; title: Pascal
pagenum: 127; title: Geulinex
pagenum: 129; title: Anne Conway
pagenum: 130; title: Locke
pagenum: 131; title: Damaris Cudworth
pagenum: 134; title: Spinoza
pagenum: 135; title: Malebranche
pagenum: 138; title: Leibniz
pagenum: 139; title: Vico
pagenum: 140; title: Shaftesbury
pagenum: 141; title: Toland
pagenum: 142; title: Berkeley
pagenum: 143; title: Philosophes, Materialists and Sentimentalists; title: Montesquieu
pagenum: 145; title: Voltaire
pagenum: 146; title: Radicati di Passerano
pagenum: 148; title: Madame du Chatelet
pagenum: 150; title: La Mettrie
pagenum: 151; title: Hume
pagenum: 153; title: Rousseau
pagenum: 155; title: Diderot
pagenum: 157; title: Many Germans and Some Non-Germans; title: Winckelmann
pagenum: 159; title: Kant
pagenum: 160; title: Burke
pagenum: 162; title: Wollstonecraft
pagenum: 163; title: Condorcet
pagenum: 164; title: Bentham
pagenum: 164; title: Goethe
pagenum: 166; title: Schiller
pagenum: 167; title: Fichte
pagenum: 167; title: Hegel
pagenum: 168; title: Holderlin
pagenum: 170; title: Schelling
pagenum: 171; title: Novalis
pagenum: 172; title: Kleist
pagenum: 173; title: Schopenhauer
pagenum: 174; title: Heine
pagenum: 176; title: Feuerbach
pagenum: 176; title: Stimer
pagenum: 177; title: The Masters of Suspicion and Some Unsuspicious Americans; title: Emerson
pagenum: 179; title: Thoreau
pagenum: 180; title: Mill
pagenum: 181; title: Darwin
pagenum: 181; title: Kierkegaard
pagenum: 182; title: Marx
pagenum: 184; title: William James
pagenum: 185; title: Nietzsche
pagenum: 187; title: Freud
pagenum: 189; title: Bergson
pagenum: 191; title: Dewey
pagenum: 192; title: The Long Twentieth Century I: Philosophy in Wartime; title: Husserl
pagenum: 193; title: Santayana
pagenum: 194; title: Croce
pagenum: 195; title: Gentile
pagenum: 196; title: Gramsci
pagenum: 196; title: Russell
pagenum: 197; title: Schlick
pagenum: 198; title: Lukdcs
pagenum: 199; title: Rosenzweig
pagenum: 200; title: Wittgenstein
pagenum: 202; title: Heidegger
pagenum: 204; title: Camap
pagenum: 206; title: Edith Stein
pagenum: 207; title: Benjamin
pagenum: 208; title: The Long Twentieth Century II: Analtics, Continentals, a Few Moribunds and a Near-death Experience; title: Gadamer
pagenum: 211; title: Lacan
pagenum: 212; title: Adomo
pagenum: 214; title: Levinas
pagenum: 216; title: Sartre
pagenum: 218; title: Beauvoir
pagenum: 220; title: Arendt
pagenum: 221; title: Merleau-Ponty
pagenum: 223; title: Quine
pagenum: 224; title: Weil
pagenum: 225; title: Ayer
pagenum: 226; title: Camus
pagenum: 229; title: Ricoeur
pagenum: 230; title: Barthes
pagenum: 230; title: Davidson
pagenum: 230; title: Althusser
pagenum: 232; title: Rawls
pagenum: 233; title: Lyotard
pagenum: 234; title: Fanon
pagenum: 235; title: Deleuze
pagenum: 237; title: Foucault
pagenum: 238; title: Baudrillard
pagenum: 240; title: Derrida
pagenum: 240; title: Debord
pagenum: 243; title: Dominique Janicaud
pagenum: 244; title: Simon Critchley
pagenum: 245; title: LAST WORDS: Creatureliness
pagenum: 247; title: GEOGRAPHICAL DETAILS AND THANKS
pagenum: 251; title: BIBLIOGRAPHY
pagenum: 253