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Memory Theatre by Simon Critchley
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Description: A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished miscellany mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office. Rooting through piles of papers, Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memory and a cache of astrological charts predi ...Show more
The Book of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In his humorous, elegantly-written romp through the history of philosophy, Simon Critchley starts with the premise that philosophers' deaths are as interesting as their lives. Through his catalogue of philosophers' demises (tales of weirdness, madness, suicide, murder, pathos and bad luck) he confronts ...Show more
Tragedy: The Greeks and Us by Simon Critchley
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
A provocative and timely exploration into tragedy from the curator of The New York Times philosophy column.
Tragedy, the Greeks and Us by Simon Critchley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come face to face with the things we don't want to know about ourselves, but which still make us who we are. It articulates the conflicts and contradictions that we need to address in order to better u ...Show more
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