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The Book of Dead Philosophers Praise for Simon Critchley's THE BOOK OF DEAD PHILOSOPHERS "A provocative and engrossing invitation to think about the human condition and what philosophy can and can't do to illuminate it." —Financial Times "Concise, witty and oddly heartening." —New Statesman (A 2008 Book of the Year) "Full of wonderful absurdities.... Extremely enjoyable." —The Independent (London) "Simon Critchley is probably the sharpest and most lucid philosopher writing in English today." —Tom McCarthy, author of Remainder "Ingenious. Packed with great stories." —Time Out London "A tremendous addition to an all too sparse literature. Brilliant, entertaining, informative." —New Humanist (UK) "A fabulous concept. [Critchley writes] with dash, humour and an eye for scandalous detail." —The Vancouver Sun "[Critchley is] among the hippest of (living) British philosophers." —The Book Bench, newyorker.com "Surprisingly good fun. Worthy of the prose writings of Woody Allen. .. Not the least of the pleasures of this odd book, lighthearted and occasionally facetious as it is, is that in surveying a chronological history of philoso• phers it provides a sweep through the entire history of philosophy itself." —The Irish Times "Critchley has a lightness of touch, a nimbleness of thought, and a mocking graveyard humour that puts you in mind of Hamlet with a skull." —The Independent on Sunday (London) Simon Critchley "The Book of Dead Philosophers is something of a magic trick: on the surface an amusing and bemused series of blackout sketches of philosophers' often rather humble THE BOOK OF and/or brutal deaths, it actually is an utterly serious, DEAD PHILOSOPHERS deeply moving, cant-free attempt to return us to the gor- geousness of material existence, to our creatureliness, to our clownish bodies, to the only immortality available to us (immersion in the moment). I absolutely love this book." —David Shields, author of Simon Critchley is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead the New School for Social Research in New York. He is the author of many books, most recently, On Heideg• ger's Being and Time and Infinitely Demanding: Ethics "[Critchley] brings the deaths of his predecessors to life of Commitment, Politics of Resistance. The Book of Dead in 190 or so energetic bursts." Philosophers was written on a hill overlooking Los -The Sunday Herald (UK) Angeles, where he was a scholar at the Getty Research Institute. He lives in Brooklyn. "Critchley gives the nonspecialist, the reader for plea• sure, a point of access into complex material." —The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) "Simon Critchley's book looks death in the face and draws from the encounter the breath of life. No philoso• pher can pull a more welcome rabbit out of a more for• bidding hat and Mr. Critchley does so in a prose style that is as deft as his intelligence." —Lewis Lapham, editor of Lapham's Quarterly THE BOOK OF ALSO BY SIMON CRITCHLEY DEAD PHILOSOPHERS On Heidegger's Being and Time with Reiner Schürmann and Steven Levine Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance On the Human Condition with Dominique Janicaud Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens On Humor Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity Very Little, Almost Nothing The Ethics of Deconstruction The BOOK of DEAD PHILOSOPHERS Simon Critchley VINTAGE BOOKS A Division of Random House, Inc. Mew York FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, FEBRUARY 2OO9 If I were a maker of books, I would make a register, with comments, of various deaths. He who would Copyright © 2008 by Simon Critchley teach men to die would teach them to live. All rights reserved. Published in the United States MONTAIGNE, by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., "That to Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die" New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Granta Books, London, in 2008. Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Illustration credits appear on page 266. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Critchley, Simon, 1960- The book of dead philosophers / Simon Critchley. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-O-307-39043-I 1. Philosophers —Death. 2. Philosophers—Anecdotes. I. Title. B72.C68 2009 I9O —DC22 [B] 2008047719 Author photograph © John Simmons Book design by Rebecca Aidlin www.vintagebooks.com Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION xv Learning How to Die - Socrates xx To Die Laughing xxv Writing about Dead Philosophers xxxi 190 OR SO DEAD PHILOSOPHERS 1 Pre-Socratics, Physiologists, Sages and Sophists Thales 4 • Solon 4 • Chilon 5 • Periander 5 • Epimenides 5 • Anaximander 6 • Pythagoras 7 • Timycha 9 • Heracleitus 10 • Aeschylus 11 • Anaxagoras 12 • Parmenides 12 • Zeno of Elea 12 Empedocles 13 • Archelaus 15 • Protagoras 15 • Democritus 17 • Prodicus 18 Platonists, Cyrenaics, Aristotelians and Cynics Plato 19 • Speusippus 21 • Xenocrates 21 • Arcesilaus 21 • Carneades 21 • Hegesias 22 • Aristotle 22 • Theophrastus 24 • Strato 25 • Lyco 2 Demetrius 25 • Antisthenes 25 • Diogenes 26 • Crates of Thebes 28 • Hipparchia 28 • Metrocles 29 • Menippus 30 xi XU CONTENTS CONTENTS Xlll Sceptics, Stoics and Epicureans Renaissance, Reformation and Anaxarchus 31 • Pyrrho 32 • Zeno of Citium 33 • Scientific Revolution Ariston 34 • Dionysius 35 • Cleanfhes 35 • Marsilio Ficino 103 • Pico della Mirandola 104 • Chrysippus 36 • Epicurus 37 • Lucretius 40 Machiavelli 105 • Erasmus 106 • St. Thomas More 107 Luther 108 • Copernicus 109 • Tycho Brahe 110 • Petrus Ramus 111 • Montaigne 111 • Giordano Bruno 114 Classical Chinese Philosophers Galileo 115 • Bacon 116 • Campanella 117 Kongzi (Confucius) 43 • Laozi (Lao Tzu) 45 • Mozi 46 • Mengzi (Mencius) 47 • Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu) 47 • Han Feizi 51 • Zen and the Art of Dying 52 Rationalists (Material and Immaterial), Empiricists and Religious Dissenters Romans (Serious and Ridiculous) and Neoplatonists Grotius 119 • Hobbes 119 • Descartes 121 • Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia 124 • Gassendi 125 • Cicero 55 • Seneca 56 • Petronius 59 • Epictetus 60 • La Rochefoucauld 126 • Pascal 127 • Geulincx 129 • Polemo of Laodicea 62 • Peregrinus Proteus 62 • Anne Conway 130 • Locke 131 • Damaris Cudworth 134 Marcus Aurelius 63 • Plotinus 64 • Hypatia 66 Spinoza 135 • Malebranche 138 • Leibniz 139 • Vico 140 • Shaftesbury 141 • Toland 142 • The Deaths of Christian Saints Berkeley 143 St. Paul 69 • Origen 71 • St. Antony 73 • St. Gregory of Nyssa 75 • St. Augustine 76 • Boethius 79 Philosophes, Materialists and Sentimentalists Montesquieu 145 • Voltaire 146 • Medieval Philosophers: Christian, Islamic and Judaic Radicati di Passerano 148 • Madame du Chätelet 150 • La Mettrie 151 • Hume 153 • Rousseau 155 • The Venerable Bede 83 • John Scottus Eriugena 84 • Diderot 157 Al-Farabi 85 • Avicenna (Ibn Sina) 86 • St. Anselm 88 • Solomon Ibn Gabirol 89 • Abelard 89 • Averroes (Ibn Rushd) 91 • Moses Maimonides 93 • Many Germans and Some Non-Germans Shahab al-din Suhrawardi 94 Winckelmann 159 • Kant 160 • Burke 162 • Wollstonecraft 163 • Condorcet 164 • Bentham 164 • Philosophy in the Latin Middle Ages Goethe 166 • Schiller 167 • Fichte 167 • Hegel 168 Hölderlin 170 • Schelling 171 • Novalis 172 • Albert the Great 95 • St. Thomas Aquinas 95 • Kleist 173 • Schopenhauer 174 • Heine 176 • St. Bonaventure 98 • Ramon Llull 98 • Feuerbach 176 • Stirner 177 Siger of Brabant 99 • St. John Duns Scotus 100 • William of Ockham 101 X!V CONTENTS The Masters of Suspicion and Some Unsuspicious Americans Emerson 179 • Thoreau 180 • Mill 181 • Darwin 181 • Kierkegaard 182 • Marx 184 • William James 185 • Nietzsche 187 • Freud 189 • Bergson 191 • Dewey 192 INTRODUCTION The Long Twentieth Century I: Philosophy in Wartime Husserl 193 • Santayana 194 • Croce 195 • Gentile 196 • Gramsci 196 • Russell 197 • Schlick 198 • Lukäcs 199 • Rosenzweig 200 • Wittgenstein 202 • Heidegger 204 • Carnap 206 • Edith Stein 207 • This book begins from a simple assumption: what defines Benjamin 208 human life in our corner of the planet at the present time is not just a fear of death, but an overwhelming terror of anni• hilation. This is a terror both of the inevitability of our demise The Long Twentieth Century II: Analytics, Continentals, with its future prospect of pain and possibly meaningless suf• a Few Moribunds and a Near-death Experience fering, and the horror of what lies in the grave other than our Gadamer 211 • Lacan 212 • Adorno 214 • body nailed into a box and lowered into the earth to become Levinas 216 • Sartre 218 • Beauvoir 220 • Arendt 221 •• wormfood. Merleau-Ponty 223 • Quine 224 • Weil 225 • We are led, on the one hand, to deny the fact of death and Ayer 226 • Camus 229 • Ricoeur 230 • Barthes 230 • to run headlong into the watery pleasures of forgetfulness, Davidson 230 • Althusser 232 • Rawls 233 • intoxication and the mindless accumulation of money and Lyotard 234 • Fanon 235 • Deleuze 237 • possessions. On the other hand, the terror of annihilation Foucault 238 • Baudrillard 240 • Derrida 240 • leads us blindly into a belief in the magical forms of salva• Debord 243 • Dominique Janicaud 244 • tion and promises of immortality offered by certain varieties Simon Critchley 245 of traditional religion and many New Age (and some rather older age) sophistries. What we seem to seek is either the transitory consolation of momentary oblivion or a miracu• ' LAST WORDS 247 lous redemption in the afterlife. Creatureliness It is in stark contrast to our drunken desire for evasion and escape that the ideal of the philosophical death has such GEOGRAPHICAL DETAILS AND THANKS 251 sobering power. As Cicero writes, and this sentiment was axiomatic for most ancient philosophy and echoes down the BIBLIOGRAPHY 253 ages, "To philosophize is to learn how to die." The main task of philosophy, in this view, is to prepare us for death, to pro• vide a kind of training for death, the cultivation of an attitude towards our finitude that faces—and faces down—the terror xv XV! INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION XVII of annihilation without offering promises of an afterlife.
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