Simon Critchley

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Simon Critchley (* 1960), English philosopher.

Simon Critchley (born February 27, 1960 ) is an English philosopher . His main interests are continental philosophy , ethics and politics , the relationship between philosophy and poetry, and the nature of humor. He deals with Martin Heidegger , Sigmund Freud , Jacques Derrida , Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Lacan , among others .

academic career

Critchley studied at the University of Essex , England, and the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis , France. In 1999 he became a professor at the University of Essex, where he also became director of the Center for Theoretical Studies and worked closely with Ernesto Laclau . From 1994 to 1999 Critchley was President of the British Society for Phenomenology and from 1998 to 2004 he was program director of the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. Since 2004 he has been a professor at the New School for Social Research in New York and has remained a part-time professor at the University of Essex. He is visiting professor at the University of Sydney in Australia and at the University of Notre Dame , USA.

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In his first book, The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas (1992), Critchley explores the ethical dimension of deconstruction . Critchley finds Derrida's ethical impulse in his examination of the work of Emmanuel Levinas . His second book, Very Little… Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature (1997), shows his interest in the relationship between philosophy and literature and the problem of nihilism. The focus is on the question of the meaning of life in a world that is characterized by the absence of religious belief. The collection of essays Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas, and Contemporary French Thought (1999) shows an increasingly political and psychoanalytic turn in Critchley's thinking. In Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2001), Critchley addresses the ongoing issue of suspicion, hostility, and mutual distortion between the two main traditions of Western philosophy, analytical and continental philosophy. In On Humor (2002) (dt .: About Humor , 2004) argues Critchley that the humor change a situation and therefore can exercise a critical function. Through an extended meditation on Wallace Stevens' poetry , Critchley explores the relationship between philosophy and poetry in Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens (2005). Infinitely Demanding (2007) (dt .: infinitely demanding , 2008) is a systematic overview of his philosophical positions, in which he argues for an ethically committed political anarchism. In the title Der Katechismus des Bürgers (2008), which is only available in German, Critchley devotes himself to the relationship between politics, law and religion based on a reading of Rousseau's social contract, whereby he makes the religious and fictional appear indispensable for a conception of politics and law, without falling back into a "re-theologization". In his essay Mystical Anarchism (2012) he compares different traditions of anarchism and makes connections between religion and politics.

Literature (German)

Literature (english)

  • 1991: ReReading Levinas, ed. With Robert Bernasconi, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
  • 1992: The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, (2nd edition, 1999)
  • 1996: Deconstructive Subjectivities, ed. With Peter Dews, State University of New York Press, Ithaca, NY.
  • 1996: Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings, ed. With Adriaan T. Peperzak and Robert Bernasconi, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
  • 1997: Very Little… Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature, Routledge, London & New York (2nd Edition, 2004).
  • 1998: A Companion to Continental Philosophy, ed. With William J. Schroeder, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.
  • 1999: Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas, and Contemporary French Thought, Verso, London (Reissued, 2007).
  • 2001: Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press.
  • 2002: The Cambridge Companion to Levinas, ed. With Robert Bernasconi, Cambridge University Press.
  • 2002: On Humor, Routledge, London.
  • 2004: Laclau, A Critical Reader, ed. With Oliver Marchart , Routledge, London.
  • 2005: On the Human Condition, with Dominique Janicaud & Eileen Brennan, Routledge, London.
  • 2005: Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens, Routledge, London.
  • 2007: Infinitely Demanding. Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance, Verso, London & New York.

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SURNAME Critchley, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1960