Starting from the premise that philosophers' deaths have been as interesting as their lives, Simon Critchley looks at the strange circumstances in which some philosophers have died and then confronts the big themes - in this case, what 'a good death' means and how to live with the knowledge of death. The book consists of short entries on various philosophers, cataloguing the manner of their demises and linking this to their central ideas, from the Pre-Socratics to Rousseau, Kant and Nietzsche among many others. The book concludes with Critchley's thoughts on the ideal of the philosophical death as a way of denouncing contemporary delusions and sophistries, what Francis Bacon saw as the Idols of the Tribe, the Den, the Market-Place and the Theatre (incidentally, Bacon died in a particularly cold winter in London in 1626 from a cold contracted after trying to stuff a chicken with snow as an experiment in refrigeration).

• We started tracking this book on February 25, 2013.
• This book was £6.05 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 74 times in the past 4,680 days.
• The current price of this book is £7.99 last checked 7 hours ago.
• This book is at its lowest price in the past year.
• The lowest price to date was £1.09 last reached on December 19, 2013.
• This book has been £1.09 one time since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was £9.49 last reached on July 1, 2016.
• This book has been £9.49 5 times since we started tracking it.

• Text-to-Speech: Disabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 306 Pages
• File Size: 27 KB