How does one write an experimental ABC, an impossible theory that would deal wit
h a series of phenomena, concepts, places, sensations, persons, and moods? A par
a-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 th
e cynical, Simon Critchley s "ABC of Impossibility" finds new life in the form o
f this small encyclopedic and aphoristic text where the reader bears witness to
the slow emergence of an attempt at a poetic ontology. "ABC of Impossibility" is
a unique undertaking that reexamines the poetic site of the fragment as thought
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