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Simon Critchley's top 10 philosophers' deaths
Simon Critchley is a Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research and the author, most recently, of The Book of Dead Philosophers.For the Guardian, he listed his top ten philosophers' deaths.His ambition for the list: "to show that often the philosopher's greatest work of art is the manner of their death."The chart-topper:Heracleitus (540-480 BC)Heracleitus became such a hater