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What made Bowie special? What made him the cultural icon he is today? And what made millions of people around the world tune into his peculiar wavelength and find exactly what they'd been looking for all along? These are the questions asked by Simon C
What do we think about when we think about football? Football is about so many things: memory, history, place, social class, gender (especially masculinity, but increasingly femininity too), family identity, tribal identity, national identity, the nature
A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished miscellany mysteriously appear in Simon Critchleys office. Rooting through piles of papers, Critchley discovers a brillianttext on the ancient art of memory and a c
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 co
Chosen by Andrew Miller as a Book of the Year in the Daily Mail 'A significant and courageous invitation to think again about the kinds of thinking that matter; the kinds of thinking that keep us awake' Rowan Williams Mysticism has been called 
Suicide is everywhere. It haunts history and current events. It haunts our own networks of friends and family. The spectre of suicide looms large, but the topic is taboo because any meaningful discussion must at the very least consider that the answer to
The question of how to lead a happy and meaningful life has been at the heart of philosophical debate since time immemorial. Today, however, these questions seem to be addressed not by philosophers but self-help gurus, who frantically champion the individ
Fodbold giver os en privilegeret adgang til eviggyldige indsigter i, hvad det vil sige at være menneske. Hvad tænker vi på, når vi tænker på fodbold? På tid og erindring? På identitet og individualisme? På helte og skurke - eller finter, fejl og snyd? På
A probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our time. Why mysticism? It has been called "experience in its most intense f
Bowie er en filosofisk rejse gennem David Bowies musik, tekstunivers og mange personaer ind til kernen i spørgsmålet om, hvorfor han har betydet så meget for så mange mennesker. Det er en bog om musikeren, som rakte ud efter os og viste os verdener, som v
In this collection of brief lives (and deaths) of nearly two hundred of the world's greatest thinkers, noted philosopher Simon Critchley creates a register of mortality that is tragic, amusing, absurd, and exemplary. From the self-mocking haikus of Ze
There is a common fallacy that is oddly and sadly even more widespread amongst non-philosophers than philosophers, that art is somehow explained by philosophy. It is not. The philosopher Simon Critchley has long been drawn to the distinctive questions rai
Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley skilfully probes some of the most perennial but least unde
'Philosopher Simon Critchley's painstaking attempt to explore transcendent experience provides a fascinating overview of Christianity's great outliers' 'Book of the Day', Guardian 'A playful, profound new study of mysticism ...
"De døde filosoffers bog" er skrevet af Simon Critchley og giver en lærerig og underholdende introduktion til knap 200 filosoffer - og deres liv og død. Simon Critchley står bag bogen her, der portrætterer nogle af historiens største filosoffer.
Very Little ... Almost Nothing puts the question of the meaning of life back at the centre of intellectual debate. Its central concern is how we can find a meaning to human finitude without recourse to anything that transcends that finitude. A profound bu
This book is an invitation to read poetry. Simon Critchley argues that poetry enlarges life with a range of observation, power of expression and attention to language that eclipses any other medium. In a rich engagement with the poetry of Wallace Stevens,