Very Little... Almost Nothing

<p><em>Very Little ... Almost Nothing </em>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 but secular meditation on the theme of death Critchley traces the idea of nihilism through Blanchot Levinas Jena Romanticism and Cavell culminating in a reading of Beckett in many ways the hero of the book. <br>In this second edition Simon Critchley has added a revealing and extended new preface and a new chapter on Wallace Stevens which reflects on the idea of poetry as philosophy.</p>