The book of dead philosophers
By: Simon Critchley.
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781847080103
Subjects: Death; Philosophers -- Death
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pre-Socratics, physiologists, sages and sophists; title: Platonists, Cyrenaics, Aristotelians and cynics; title: Sceptics, stoics and epicureans; title: Classical Chinese philosophers; title: Romans (serious and ridiculous) and neoplatonists; title: The deaths of Christian saints; title: Medieval philosophers: Christian, Islamic, and Judaic; title: Philosophy in the Latin Middle Ages; title: Renaissance, Reformation and scientific revolution; title: Rationalists (material and immaterial), empiricists and religious dissenters; title: Philosophes, materialists and sentimentalists; title: Many Germans and some non-Germans; title: The masters of suspicion and some unsuspicious Americans; title: The long twentieth century I: philosophy in wartime; title: The long twentieth century II: analytics, continentals, a few moribunds and a near-death experience.