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[DEBUT] This debut novel by Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York, might be called a philosophical mystery, but first and foremost it is a portrait of obsession. Tasked with going through the papers of friend Michel, the former chair of the Sorbonne's philosophy department, the narrator uncovers Michel's interest in the memory theater, a means of recall dating from ancient Greece and here paralleled to the development of phil...Log In or Sign Up to Read More