false 57674 2 0 3523354 1847080103 9781847080103 18 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3523354.The_Book_of_Dead_Philosophers 3.54 79 57674 3.75 299 59 2008 100017 0192853597 9780192853592 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171459076m/100017.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171459076s/100017.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100017.Continental_Philosophy_A_Very_Short_Introduction 3.75 40 57674 3.75 299 59 2001 743325 1844671216 9781844671212 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177936939m/743325.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177936939s/743325.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/743325.Infinitely_Demanding_Ethics_of_Commitment_Politics_of_Resistance 3.74 31 A new political ethics that confronts the injustices of liberal democracy.

Infinitely Demanding is the clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchley's influential views on philosophy, ethics, and politics. Part diagnosis of the times, part theoretical analysis of the impasses and possibilities of ethics and politics, part manifesto, Infinitely Demanding identifies a massive political disappointment at the heart of liberal democracy and argues that what is called for is an ethics of commitment that can inform a radical politics. Exploring the problem of ethics in Kant, Levinas, Badiou, and Lacan that leads to a conception of subjectivity based on the infinite responsibility of an ethical demand, Critchley considers the possibility of political subjectivity and action after Marx and Marxism. Infinitely Demanding culminates in an argument for anarchism as an ethical practice and a remotivating means of political organization.]]> 57674 3.75 299 59 2007 761919 1859842461 9781859842461 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178132818m/761919.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178132818s/761919.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/761919.Ethics_Politics_Subjectivity_Essays_on_Derrida_Levinas_and_Contemporary_French_Thought 4.50 8 57674 3.75 299 59 1998 1170797 0415251214 9780415251211 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181611534m/1170797.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181611534s/1170797.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1170797.On_Humour 3.44 9 On Humour is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humor and about what it is to be human. Simon Critchley probes some of the most perennial features of humor, such as our tendency to laugh at animals and our bodies, why we mock death with comedy and why we think it's funny when people start to act like machines. He also looks as the darker side of humor, as when rife with sexism and racism, and shows how humor might remind us of people we would rather not be. Above all, Simon Critchley argues that humor can tell us much about the human condition, the meaning of life and why comedy itself begins in philosophy.

]]> 57674 3.75 299 59 2002 746784 0415356318 9780415356312 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177973762m/746784.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177973762s/746784.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/746784.Things_Merely_Are_Philosophy_in_the_Poetry_of_Wallace_Stevens 4.00 5 This 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. In a rich engagement with the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Critchley reveals that poetry also contains deep and important philosophical insight. Above all, he argues for a "poetic epistemology" that enables us to think afresh the philosophical problem of the relation between mind and world, and ultimately to cast the problem away.

Drawing astutely on Kant, the German and English Romantics and Heidegger, Critchley argues that through its descriptions of particular things and their stubborn plainness - whether water, guitars, trees, or cats - poetry evokes the "mereness" of things. It is this experience that provokes the mood of calm and releases the imaginative insight we need to press back against the pressure of reality. Critchley also argues that this calm defines the cinematic eye of Terrence Malick, whose work is discussed at the end of the book.

]]> 57674 3.75 299 59 2005 870733 0415128218 9780415128216 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179070426m/870733.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179070426s/870733.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/870733.Very_Little_Almost_Nothing_Death_Philosophy_Literature 3.60 5 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.

]]> 57674 3.75 299 59 1997 743327 0748612173 9780748612178 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177936941m/743327.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177936941s/743327.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/743327.The_Ethics_of_Deconstruction 4.50 4 The Ethics of Deconstruction was the first book to argue for the ethical turn in Derrida's work and to show as powerfully as possible how deconstruction has persuasive ethical consequences that were vital to our thinking through of questions of politics and democracy. Now reissued with three new appendices which restate as well as reflect upon and deepen the book's argument, this is undoubtedly the standard work in the field.]]> 57674 3.75 299 59 1992 314294 9501265048 9789501265040 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173683298m/314294.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173683298s/314294.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/314294.Desconstruccion_y_Pragmatismo 4.00 1 57674 3.75 299 59 4132 3.99 3262 237 24325 3.91 222 20 1996 5037573 0791427234 9780791427231 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5037573.Deconstructive_Subjectivities 0.0 0 57674 3.75 299 59 148408 3.92 13 3 1996