I Want to Die, I Hate My Life: Three Essays on Tragedy and One on Beckett

by Simon Critchley

"There is a common fallacy that is oddly and sadly even more widespread amongst non-philosophers than philosophers, that art is somehow explained by philosophy. It is not."

The philosopher Simon Critchley has long been drawn to the distinctive questions raised by tragedy. In this major new work, conceived as a sequel to his Tragedy, the Greeks and Us (2019), he describes the power of tragic drama as deriving from its depictions of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1916809715
• ISBN13: 9781916809710
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Eris
• Length: 160 Pages