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This event is in the past.It took place on October 16, 2026 at Harvard Book Store.

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Literature Talk

Simon Critchley

October 9 at 7pm - October 16

At Harvard Book Store

Harvard Square, Cambridge

📚"get lost bumping into random books" in the used basement
🚇Feel the metro rumble beneath the downstairs stacks
🕰️Arrive early to browse, talks draw a crowd

Heidegger's Being and Time is famously forbidding, but Simon Critchley makes it click. The New School philosopher unpacks his new guide with Harvard's Sean Kelly at Harvard Book Store.

Author talk
Philosophy deep dive
Bookish night out
Intellectual discussion

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  • Author talk
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  • Harvard Book Store
  • Harvard Square
  • Cambridge
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