Warwick Studies in European Philosophy

This worn, coffee-stained library copy of Simon Critchley’s Very Little… Almost Nothing reflects its lasting impact. Published in the Warwick Studies in European Philosophy series—edited by former Warwick professor Andrew Benjamin—the book exemplifies the department’s 1990s engagement with existentialism and the intersection of philosophy and literature. Critchley, now Hans Jonas Professor at The New School, explores death, meaning, and self-creation in a godless world. On page 25, a reader underlined: “In the face of a God-less world, individual authenticity produces itself through acts of self-invention and self-creation.”