Simon Critchley

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 essence of humor. It deals with, among others, Martin Heidegger, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Lacan.

Academic career

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

Work

In his first book, The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas (1992 ), Critchley is concerned with the ethical dimension of deconstruction. Critchley finds the ethical impulse Derrida in his discussion of the work of Emmanuel Levinas. His second book, Very Little ... Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature ( 1997), makes clear his interest in the relationship between philosophy and literature, and the problem of nihilism. The focus is 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 increasing political and psychoanalytic turn in Critchley's thinking. In Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2001) Critchley addresses the ongoing question of mistrust, hostility and mutual distortion between the two main traditions of Western philosophy, the analytic and continental philosophy. In On Humour (2002) ( dt: About Humor, 2004) Critchley argues that humor can change a situation and therefore exert a critical function. Through an extended meditation on the poetry of Wallace Stevens Critchley studied in Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens ( 2005) the relationship between philosophy and poetry. 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 published only in German title The Catechism of the Citizen ( 2008) is dedicated to Critchley based on a reading of Rousseau's Social Contract to the relationship between politics, law and religion, and leaves all the religious and Fictional appear as an indispensable condition of a conception of politics and law, without getting into a "re - theologizing " fall back.

Literature ( German )

Literature (English)

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