A highly entertaining route into philosophers and their theories, this perfect book to dip into as well as absorb at length is full of quirky stories from prolific, bestselling author and philosopher Simon Critchley.Critchley pulls readers in with hilarious short stories of how various philosophers died and then linking this to their central ideas. He then confronts the big themes-in this case, what "a good death" means and how to live with the knowledge of death and free from what he calls "delusions and sophistries."Entries run from a couple of sentences in the case of the Pre-Socratics or minor Medievals and Moderns, up to a paragraph and short essays of about 800 words for such as Socrates, Seneca, Rousseau, Kant and Nietzsche.