Very LittleāAlmost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature
by Simon Critchley
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Very LittleāAlmost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature Summary
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If one is to look to where philosophy begins, one must understand the significance of death or finitude for philosophy as well. Beginning with first use of the concept of "nihilism" or finitude for philosophy, Very Little... Almost Nothing surveys the works of Nietzsche and Heidegger, Blanchot, Levinas, Cavell and Beckett, considering the contribution of these writers to the question of finitude and allowing us to analyze the relationship between philosophy and literature anew. Philosophical modernity may be thinking through of the death of God, but as Simon Critchley argues, this offers little comfort in the face of an uncertain world. Critchley calls upon literature not to restore meaning to life but to show the meaninglessness of life as an achievement, the achievement of the ordinary or the everyday. |
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