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On Humour by Simon Critchley
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €29.01Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley... -
On Bowie by Simon Critchley
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81What made Bowie special? What made him the cultural icon he is today? And what made millions of people around the world tune into his peculiar wavelength and find exactly what they'd been looking for... -
Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.08Suicide is everywhere. It haunts history and current events. It haunts our own networks of friends and family. The spectre of suicide looms large, but the topic is taboo because any meaningful... -
Memory Theatre by Simon Critchley
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished miscellany mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office. Rooting through piles of papers, Critchley... -
Deconstruction and Pragmatism by Simon Critchley
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Deconstruction and pragmatism constitute two of the major intellectual influences on the contemporary theoretical scene; influences personified in the work of Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty. Both... -
ABC of Impossibility by Simon Critchley
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.99How does one write an experimental ABC, an impossible theory that would deal with a series of phenomena, concepts, places, sensations, persons, and moods? A para-philosophy? Returning to a... -
Mysticism by Simon Critchley 9781681378244
RRP: €22.55Booksplease Price: €15.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681378244Author Simon CritchleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Bowie by Simon Critchley 9781944869144
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.09Simon Critchley first encountered David Bowie in the early seventies, when the singer appeared on Britain's most-watched music show, Top of the Pops. His performance of "Starman" mesmerized... -
Impossible Objects by Simon Critchley 9780745653211
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €15.04Impossible objects are those about which the philosopher, narrowly conceived, can hardly speak: poetry, film, music, humor. Such "objects" do not rely on philosophy for interpretation and... -
Deconstructive Subjectivities by Simon Critchley 9780791427248
Booksplease Price: €31.02Explores the meanings of subjectivity in continental philosophy in the wake of post-structuralism and critical theory.About the AuthorSimon Critchley is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of... -
The Problem with Levinas by Simon Critchley 9780198738763
Booksplease Price: €62.83Levinas's idea of ethics as a relation of responsibility to the other person has become a highly influential and recognizable position across a wide range of academic and non-academic fields. Simon... -
Impossible Objects by Simon Critchley 9780745653204
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €43.20Impossible objects are those about which the philosopher, narrowly conceived, can hardly speak: poetry, film, music, humor. Such "objects" do not rely on philosophy for interpretation and... -
The Book of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley
RRP: €24.99Booksplease Price: €15.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307390431Author Simon CritchleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
The Cambridge Companion to Levinas by Simon Critchley
Booksplease Price: €36.35Emmanuel 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... -
Deconstructive Subjectivities by Simon Critchley 9780791427231
RRP: €86.28Booksplease Price: €70.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas by Simon Critchley
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €28.54This is an expanded edition of the first book to argue for the ethical turn in Derrida's work. Simon Critchley's first book, The Ethics of Deconstruction, was originally published to great acclaim in... -
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us by Simon Critchley 9780525564645
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €14.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525564645Author Simon CritchleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Laclau: A Critical Reader Simon Critchley 9780415238441
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Laclau: A Critical Reader is the first full-length critical appraisal of Laclau's work and includes contributions from several leading philosophers and theorists. The first section examines Laclau's... -
Tragedy, the Greeks and Us Simon Critchley 9781788161480
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come face to face with the things we don't want to know about ourselves, but which still make us... -
On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy Simon Critchley 9781800816947
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.28'A significant and courageous invitation to think again about the kinds of thinking that matter; the kinds of thinking that keep us awake' Rowan Williams Mysticism has been called 'experience at... -
On Heidegger's Being and Time Simon Critchley 9780415775960
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27On Heidegger's Being and Time is an outstanding exploration of Heidegger's most important work by two major philosophers. Simon Critchley argues that we must see Being and Time as a radicalization of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Levinas by Simon Critchley 9780521662062
Booksplease Price: €98.41Emmanuel 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... -
Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Simon Critchley
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.75Simon 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... -
Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine by Simon Critchley 9780307950482
RRP: €22.61Booksplease Price: €16.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307950482Author Simon CritchleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Bald: 35 Philosophical Short Cuts by Simon Critchley
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.44"A genial exercise in public philosophy" (Kirkus, starred review) from one of the world's best-known popular philosophers"Simon Critchley is an international treasure-that rare and real philosopher... -
Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance by Simon Critchley
Booksplease Price: €21.10The clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchley's influential views on philosophy, ethics, and politics, Infinitely Demanding identifies a massive political disappointment at... -
Faith of the Faithless: Experiments on Political Theology by Simon Critchley 9781781681688
Booksplease Price: €29.42The return to religion has perhaps become the dominant cliche of contemporary theory, which rarely offers anything more than an exaggerated echo of a political reality dominated by religious war... -
Thinking Heidegger: 'Being in Time' Explained by Simon Critchley 9798896231080
RRP: €33.26Booksplease Price: €21.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Companion to Continental Philosophy Simon Critchley (University of Essex) 9780631218500
RRP: €46.35Booksplease Price: €43.09Covering the complete development of post-Kantian Continental philosophy, this volume serves as an essential reference work for philosophers and those engaged in the many disciplines that are... -
Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens by Simon Critchley
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €44.02This 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... -
Gareth Long Never Odd or Even by Simon Critchley 9781894699532
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €17.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894699532Author Simon CritchleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint -
Very Little ... Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy and Literature by Simon Critchley
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Very Little ... Almost Nothing puts the question of the meaning of life back at the centre of intellectual debate. Its central concern is how we can find a meaning to human finitude without recourse... -
Ethics-politics-subjectivity: Levinas and Contemporary French Thought by Simon Critchley 9781844673513
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €18.27In 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... -
How to Stop Living and Start Worrying: Conversations with Carl Cederstroem by Simon Critchley 9780745650388
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €43.20The question of how to lead a happy and meaningful life has been at the heart of philosophical debate since time immemorial. Today, however, these questions seem to be addressed not by philosophers... -
What We Think About When We Think About Football by Simon Critchley
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81What do we think about when we think about football? Football is about so many things: memory, history, place, social class, gender (especially masculinity, but increasingly femininity too), family... -
How to Stop Living and Start Worrying: Conversations with Carl Cederstroem by Simon Critchley 9780745650395
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.90The question of how to lead a happy and meaningful life has been at the heart of philosophical debate since time immemorial. Today, however, these questions seem to be addressed not by philosophers... -
I Want to Die, I Hate My Life: Three Essays on Tragedy and One on Beckett Simon Critchley 9781967751600
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €78.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781967751600Author Simon CritchleyFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint -
I Want to Die, I Hate My Life: Three Essays on Tragedy and One on Beckett Simon Critchley 9781916809710
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.29"There is a common fallacy that is oddly and sadly even more widespread amongst non-philosophers than philosophers, that art is somehow explained by philosophy. It is not."The philosopher Simon... -
The Sound of Ontology: Music as a Model for Metaphysics by Kenneth LaFave 9781498551861
Booksplease Price: €96.07The Sound of Ontology: Music as a Model for Metaphysics explores connections between Western art music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the ideas that dominated philosophy leading up to... -
How Not to Kill Yourself: Portrait of a Suicidal Mind by Clancy Martin 9780861540488
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €15.91'Illuminating, riveting, and - for those of us who are suffering, or know people who are - potentially life-savingly helpful.' Scott Stossel The last time Clancy Martin tried to kill himself was...