An attempt to understand the phenomenon of suicide, what precedes it and what follows. Considers suicide from the point of view of those who have made the leap, or have come close to it. From the author of "Memory Theatre".
Über den Autor Critchley Simon
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Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. His books include Very Little... Almost Nothing, Infinitely Demanding, The Book of Dead Philosophers, The Faith of the Faithless, and Tragedy, The Greeks and Us. He has also written short books on David Bowie and football, and a novella called Memory Theatre. He runs 'The Stone', a philosophy column in The New York Times and is also 50 per cent of an obscure musical combo called Critchley & Simmons. A new book, Bald, is forthcoming.
