Very Little... Almost Nothing Puts The Question Of The Meaning Of Life Back At The Centre Of Intellectual Debate. Its Central Concern Is How We Can Find A Meaning To Human Finitude Without Recourse To Anything That Transcends That Finitude. A Profound But Secular Meditation On The Theme Of Death, Critchley Traces The Idea Of Nihilism Through Blanchot, Levinas, Jena Romanticism And Cavell, Culminating In A Reading Of Beckett, In Many Ways The Hero Of The Book. In This Second Edition, Simon Critchley Has Added A Revealing And Extended New Preface, And A New Chapter On Wallace Stevens Which Reflects On The Idea Of Poetry As Philosophy.