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  ABC of Impossibility

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*ABC of Impossibility *
by Simon Critchley
August 10th, 2015
*An experimental text of para-philosophical fragments working toward a
poetic ontology*

How does one write an experimental ABC: an impossible theory that would
deal with a series of phenomena, concepts, places, sensations, persons,
and moods? A para-philosophy? Returning to a once abandoned project of
fragmented thoughts where the author’s voice moves from the serious, to
the pathetic, to the absurd, to the cynical, Simon Critchley’s /ABC of
Impossibility/ finds new life in the form of this small encyclopedic and
aphoristic text where the reader bears witness to the slow emergence of
an attempt at a poetic ontology. /ABC of Impossibility/ is a unique
undertaking that returns to the poetic site of the fragment as thought.
Following a heritage of fragmented, aphoristic thinkers including
Pascal, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Pessoa, Critchley revitalizes a
para-philosophical thinking that can only be uttered by way of another,
as he declares in the opening pages, “In writing this, I promise to tell
the truth, but not to be myself.”

*Simon Critchley* is Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social
Research. He is the author of numerous philosophical and experimental
works including /The Faith of the Faithless/, T/he Book of Dead
Philosophers/, and most recently, a book called /Bowie/. He is moderator
of ‘The Stone,’ a philosophy column in The New York Times, to which he
is a frequent contributor.

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