3 responses to “Suicide -A Defence by Simon Critchley”
This should be very useful. I haven’t listened yet but Critchley wrote something of a critique of suicidal logic and a weird affirmation of the act in Very Little… Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature. If I remember right he went down the route of “suicide is actually an incredible affirmation of the power of the self and of the materiality of an intense connection to the world”. I’ve got a few days off coming to go through more stuff.
Just had a quick scan through sections. Seem Cioran (and the pessimists as general) is getting a lot of attention these days. I essentially agree with Cioran’s Stoic criticism of suicide as a positive affirmational act. I think once we dispense with defending suicide, or rather once we move through it, there is much more interesting relationship with suicidality to be had.
it’s an interesting question of what it means to try and think of “suicide” apart from the particulars of any one life-circumstances and not say as an object of law or medicine.
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This should be very useful. I haven’t listened yet but Critchley wrote something of a critique of suicidal logic and a weird affirmation of the act in Very Little… Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature. If I remember right he went down the route of “suicide is actually an incredible affirmation of the power of the self and of the materiality of an intense connection to the world”. I’ve got a few days off coming to go through more stuff.
Just had a quick scan through sections. Seem Cioran (and the pessimists as general) is getting a lot of attention these days. I essentially agree with Cioran’s Stoic criticism of suicide as a positive affirmational act. I think once we dispense with defending suicide, or rather once we move through it, there is much more interesting relationship with suicidality to be had.
it’s an interesting question of what it means to try and think of “suicide” apart from the particulars of any one life-circumstances and not say as an object of law or medicine.