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Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley & David Hume
$34.00 NZD
Category: Grief & Loss
We have to look suicide in the face, long and hard, and see what features, what profile, what inherited character traits and wrinkles emerge.' 'This book is not a suicide note. Ten days after Edouard Leve handed in the manuscript of Suicide to his publisher in 2007, he hanged himself in his apart- ment. ...Show more
On Bowie by Simon Critchley
$18.99 NZD
Category: Music
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 Critchley in this keen-eyed, moving and textured tribu ...Show more
The Book of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley
$38.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
In his humorous, elegantly-written romp through the history of philosophy, Simon Critchley 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 ...Show more
Tragedy: The Greeks and Us by Simon Critchley
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
A provocative and timely exploration into tragedy from the curator of The New York Times philosophy column.
Tragedy, the Greeks and Us by Simon Critchley
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
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 contradictions that we need to address in order to better u ...Show more
What We Think About When We Think About Football by Simon Critchley
$22.99 NZD
Category: Technology & Transport
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 of groups. It is essentially collaborative, even ...Show more
What We Think about When We Think about Football by Simon Critchley
$18.00 NZD
Category: Technology & Transport
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 of groups. It is essentially collaborative, even ...Show more
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