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Simon Critchly is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. He is the author of many books,including On Heidegger's Being and Time and Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance. The Book of Dead Philosophers was written on a hill overlooking Los Angeles, where he was a scholar at the Getty Research Institute. He lives in Brooklyn.
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The philosopher recounts how Francis Bacon and Jean Jacques Rousseau met their end.
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The philosopher explains the instruction of autonomy.
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Philosopher Simon Critchley discusses the new Enlightenment.
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The philosopher takes a look at Nietzsche’s approach to life and death.
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Simon Critchley on the brilliance of Epicurus.
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The philosopher discusses the ape-like nature of humans.