Facing the Ocean: A review of Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley
Notes on Suicide is restlessly motivated by this tension between the one and the many, and how suicide’s place in the world (here, mostly Western) has been shaped by its claims upon neither and both. The book opens by weaving an account of what “we” think into Critchley’s attempt to find a place for his “I”-reflections. Often, as he admits, he’s been no more clued-up than anyone else touched by this topic — which is all of us, without exception or excuse.
Cal Revely-Calder on Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley.