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In The Book of Dead Philosophers Professor of Philosophy at the new school for Social Research, New York Simon Critchely 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 the big themes: how to die well and live without delusion. Critchley argues that we either seek the consolations of momentary oblivion or a miraculous redemption in the afterlife. He wages that by discovering how philosophers died we might also learn how to live.

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