عنوان

Very little-- almost nothing

(Number (ISBN

9786610077984

Country Code

IR

Number

ebook5638

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Country of publication

IR

Title Proper

Very little-- almost nothing

General Material Designation

[Electronic Resource]

Other Title Information

:death, philosophy, literature

First Statement of Responsibility

/ Simon Critchley

Edition Statement

Second edition.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxviii, 276 pages

Other Physical Details

: illustrations ; 22 cm

Text of Note

Title from e-book title screen (viewed October 16, 2007).

Text of Note

GMD: electronic resource.

Text of Note

e

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-269) and index.

Text of Note

Preamble: Travels in Nihilon -- Philosophy begins in disappointment -- Pre-Nietzschean nihilism -- Nietzschean nihilism -- Responding to nihilism: five possibilities -- Heidegger's transformation of Nietzschean nihilism -- Heidegger contra Junger -- Impossible redemption: Adorno on nihilism -- Learning how to die--the argument -- Il y a -- Reading Blanchot -- How is literature possible? -- Orpheus, or the law of desire -- Blanchot's genealogy of morals: exteriority as desire, exteriority as law -- Il y a--the origin of the artwork -- first slope--Hegel avec Sade -- second slope--a fate worse than death -- ambiguity--Blanchot's secret -- The (im)possibility of death--or, how would Blanchot read Blanchot if he were not Blanchot? -- Holding Levinas's hand to Blanchot's fire -- a dying future -- atheist transcendence -- Unworking romanticism -- Our naivete -- Kantian fragmentation -- deepest naivete--political romanticism -- Hegel, Schlegel -- romantic modernity -- Digression I: Imagination as resistance (Wallace Stevens) -- Romantic ambiguity -- the fragment -- wit and irony -- the non-romantic essence of romanticism -- Cavell's 'romanticism' -- the romanticization of everyday life -- Emerson as the literary absolute -- Digression II: Why Stanley loves America and why we should too -- Cavell's romanticism -- I live my scepticism -- Cavell's tragic wisdom -- finiteness, limitedness -- Know happiness--on Beckett -- Beckett and philosophical interpretation -- The dredging machine (Derrida) -- The meaning of meaninglessness and the paradoxical task of interpretation (Adorno I) -- Hope against hope--the elevation of social criticism to the level of form (Adorno II) -- Nothing is funnier than unhappiness--Beckett's laughter (Adorno III) -- Storytime, time of death (Molloy, Malone Dies) -- My old aporetics--the syntax of weakness (The Unnameable) -- Who speaks? Not I (Blanchot) -- No happiness? (Cavell) -- The philosophical significance of a poem--on Wallace Stevens.

Variant Title

CRKN - Taylor & Francis ebooks

Philosophy, Modern.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism

Nihilism.

Death.

Electronic books.--local

Number

Class number

Critchley, Simon, 1960

MyiLibrary

Taylor & Francis

Country

ایران

Call Number

149,8

Date and Hour of Consultation and Access

0203462939.pdf

Electronic Format Type

0

old catalog

e

BL

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Y