{"product_id":"9781937561857","title":"ABC of Impossibility","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow 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 \u003ci\u003eABC of Impossibility\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eABC of Impossibility\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique undertaking that reexamines 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132340846832,"sku":"9781937561857","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781937561857_p0.jpg?v=1763664292","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781937561857","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}