Book of Dead Philosophers

Description: In this rigorous, profound and frequently hilarious ("The Sunday Telegraph," UK) work, philosopher Critchley recounts the deaths of more than 190 philosophers and shows how their variously tragic, amusing, bizarre, and absurd ends can help readers lead richer lives.

Review Quotes: "A provocative and engrossing invitation to think about the human condition and what philosophy can and can't do to illuminate it."
--The Financial Times

"Rigorous, profound and frequently hilarious. . . . Critchley is an engaging, deadpan guide to the metaphysical necropolis. . . . At a time when much popular philosophy is either frivolous, dull or complacent, his is a bracingly serious and properly comic presence."
--The Daily Telegraph (UK)