Notes on Suicide - Couverture souple

Critchley, Simon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910695068 ISBN 13 : 9781910695067

Editeur : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2015

Synopsis

Suicide 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 discussion must at the very least consider that the answer to the question - 'is life worth living?' - might not be an emphatic yes; it might even be a stern no. Through a sweeping historical overview of suicide, a moving literary survey of famous suicide notes, and a psychological analysis of himself, Simon Critchley offers us an insight into what it means to possess the all too human gift and curse of being of being able to choose life or death.
Five years after its initial publication, this revised edition of Notes on Suicide includes a new preface by the author adressing shifts in the discourse surrounding suicide, particularly in relation to social media.

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À propos de l?auteur

Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. His previous books include On Humour, The Book of Dead Philosophers, How to Stop Living and Start Worrying, Impossible Objects, The Mattering of Matter (with Tom McCarthy), The Faith of the Faithless, Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine (with Jamieson Webster), Bowie, and Memory Theatre. He is series moderator of 'The Stone', a philosophy column in the New York Times, to which he is a frequent contributor.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1910695068
• ISBN 13: 9781910695067
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
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