Memory Theatre

Resumen del libro

A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished miscellany mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office. Rooting through piles of papers, Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memory and a cache of astrological charts predicting the deaths of various philosophers.

Among them is a chart for Critchley himself, laying out in great detail the course of his life and eventual demise. Becoming obsessed with the details of his fate, Critchley receives the missing, final box, which contains a maquette of Giulio Camillo's sixteenth-century Venetian memory theatre, a space supposed to contain the sum of all knowledge. That's when the hallucinations begin -

Biografía del autor

Estudió Filosofía y fue profesor en universidades de Francia, Australia, Noruega, Estados Unidos y Suiza. Actualmente ocupa la cátedra Hans Jonas en la New School for Social Research de Nueva York y es director de la fundación Onassis. Es uno de los filósofos más interesantes y eclécticos del siglo xxi. En Sexto Piso hemos publicado Bowie (2016), En qué pensamos cuando pensamos en fútbol (2017) y Misticismo (2025).