I Want to Die, I Hate My Life: Three Essays on Tragedy and One on Beckett by Critchley, Simon

I Want to Die, I Hate My Life: Three Essays on Tragedy and One on Beckett (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781967751600)

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I Want to Die, I Hate My Life: Three Essays on Tragedy and One on Beckett by Critchley, Simon

I Want to Die, I Hate My Life: Three Essays on Tragedy and One on Beckett

$100.00
I Want to Die, I Hate My Life: Three Essays on Tragedy and One on Beckett by Critchley, Simon

I Want to Die, I Hate My Life: Three Essays on Tragedy and One on Beckett

$100.00
Format: Hardcover
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"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 raised by tragedy. In this major new work, conceived as a sequel to his Tragedy, the Greeks and Us (2019), he describes the power of tragic drama as deriving from its depictions of 'stuckness': of the inescapable situation of being oneself. In readings of Jean Racine, Henrik Ibsen, and Samuel Beckett, Critchley offers an exceptionally perceptive account of how tragedy dramatises this irreducibly absurd condition.

I Want to Die, I Hate My Life is at once a searching philosophical engagement with tragedy and a bracing argument against the widespread tendency to reduce literary texts to mere illustrations of philosophical ideas. Critchley's exposition of the ambiguities that lie at the heart of tragic drama--of tragedy's resistance to the kind of rational explanations that philosophers have sought to impose upon it--doesn't just enhance our understanding of literature; it also points towards a wiser, more subtle, and more dynamic way of doing philosophy.

Author: Simon Critchley
ISBN-10: 1967751609
ISBN-13: 9781967751600
Publisher: Eris
Language: English
Published: 07/08/2025
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
By Simon Critchley
By Simon Critchley
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Simon Critchley has written over twenty books, including studies of Greek tragedy, David Bowie, football, suicide, Shakespeare, and how philosophers die, as well as a novella. He is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York and a Director of the Onassis Foundation. As co-editor of The Stone at the New York Times, Critchley showed that philosophy plays a vital role in the public realm.

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