Dead Philosophers Society: An Interview With Simon Critchley
The idea of the philosophical death is the core teaching of philosophy in antiquity from Socrates and Epicurus onwards: we can go to our death freely and without fear having given up the consolation of any belief in an afterlife. As Wittgenstein says, is some problem solved by the idea of my living forever? Of course not. It is, however, difficult to fully and completely renounce any idea of the afterlife.
Andrew Gallix interviews philosopher Simon Critchley.
Does this shit happen to Jonathan Safran Foer?
As Galleycat notes, Book Expo 2008 started so well for Tony O’Neill: from trading books with Slash, to talking William S Burroughs with director John Landis and catching up with Dan Fante and Jerry Stahl. Then, It was right after meeting Jerry that I caught Vanessa’s eye. She was frantically gesturing for me to join […]
Bad Faith X
One of the creeping, unanalysed myths of our time is that it is somehow wrong to dislike Islam, or any part thereof, and wrong to take a dim view of its tenets and demands, and wrong to take a still dimmer view of the figure who founded it. I can practically hear the distant tutting and grunts of disapproval. Poor Islam. Poor Muslims. Their beliefs are being mocked. How hurtful. How “racist”. How terribly unfair.
David Thompson‘s final column for 3:AM.