Simon Critchley

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Simon Critchley is affiliated with the following schools: Côte d'Azur University, University of Essex, The New School

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According to Wikipedia, Simon Critchley is an English philosopher and the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York, USA. Challenging the ancient tradition that philosophy begins in wonder, Critchley argues that philosophy begins in disappointment. Two particular forms of disappointment inform Critchley's work: religious and political disappointment. While religious disappointment arises from a lack of faith and generates the problem of what is the meaning of life in the face of nihilism, political disappointment comes from the violent world we live in and raises the question of justice in a violently unjust world. In addition, to these two regions of research, Critchley's recent works have engaged in more experimental forms of writing on Shakespeare, David Bowie, suicide, Greek tragedy and association football.

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The ethics of deconstruction : Derrida and Levinas (1999) (465)
Basic Philosophical Writings (1996) (363)
Translations of infinitely demanding: Ethics of commitment, politics of resistance (2007) (227)
The Cambridge Companion to LEVINAS (2002) (214)
Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings (1997) (189)
Ethics, Politics, Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary French Thought (1999) (187)
Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2001) (164)
Deconstruction and Pragmatism (1996) (151)
Very Little ... Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy and Literature (1997) (128)
On Heidegger's Being and Time (2008) (119)
The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology (2012) (118)
What is continental philosophy (1997) (112)
Re-Reading Levinas (1991) (99)
Laclau: A Critical Reader (2004) (99)
Things merely are (2005) (75)
Five Problems in Levinas’s View of Politics and the Sketch of a Solution to them (2004) (69)
What is the question to which 'substitution' is the answer? (2002) (61)
Deconstruction and Pragmatism ‐ is Derrida a Private Ironist or a Public Liberal? (1994) (54)
The Book of Dead Philosophers (2008) (48)
A Companion to Continental Philosophy (1998) (40)
Evil and the temptation of theodicy (2002) (39)
The Problem with Levinas (2015) (38)
Levinas and Judaism (2002) (37)
Theology and organization (2012) (36)
Is There a Normative Deficit in the Theory of Hegemony (2012) (34)
Language and alterity in the thought of Levinas (2002) (34)
With Being-With? Notes on Jean-Luc Nancy’s Rewriting of Being and Time (1999) (29)
Comedy and Finitude: Displacing the Tragic‐Heroic Paradigm in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (1999) (25)
Metaphysics in the Dark (1998) (23)
The Anarchist Turn (2013) (23)
Levinas and language (2002) (23)
The Other's Decision in Me (1998) (22)
Ethics, Politics and Radical Democracy - The History of a Disagreement (2002) (21)
On Derrida's Specters of Marx (1995) (20)
The Original Traumatism: Levinas and Psychoanalysis (1999) (19)
A Commentary Upon Derrida's Reading of Hegel in Glas (1988) (19)
Calm: On Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line (2002) (17)
Levinas and the Talmud (2002) (15)
How to Stop Living and Start Worrying: Conversations with Carl Cederstrom (2010) (15)
Remarks on Derrida and Habermas (2000) (15)
The concepts of art and poetry in Emmanuel Levinas's writings (2002) (14)
Infinitely Demanding Anarchism: An Interview with Simon Critchley (2009) (14)
Violent thoughts about Slavoj Zizek (2008) (13)
Did you hear the One about the Philosopher Writing a Book on Humour? (2002) (13)
Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine (2013) (13)
Leaving the Climate of Heidegger’s Thinking (2009) (13)
Mystical Anarchism (2009) (12)
The chiasmus: Levinas, Derrida and the ethical demand for deconstruction (1989) (12)
Il y a — A Dying Stronger than Death (Blanchot with Levinas) (1993) (12)
Das Ding: Lacan and Levinas1 (1998) (11)
Emmanuel Levinas, Basic Philosophical Writings, « Studies in Continental Thought » (1997) (11)
The Hamlet doctrine (2013) (10)
Who Speaks in the Work of Samuel Beckett (1998) (10)
The deconstruction of actuality: an interview with Jacques Derrida (1994) (10)
Sincerity and the end of theodicy (2002) (9)
Ours Is Not a Terrible Situation (2007) (8)
To be or not to be is not the question — On Beckett's Film (2007) (7)
I Want to Die, I Hate My Life--Phaedra's Malaise (2004) (6)
Universal Shylockery: Money and Morality in The Merchant of Venice (2006) (6)
The catechism of the citizen: politics, law and religion in, after, with and against Rousseau (2009) (6)
Heidegger for Beginners (1999) (6)
THE SPLIT SUBJECT (2008) (6)
What Is the Institutional Form of Thinking? (2015) (6)
Persecution Before Exploitation - A Non-Jewish Israel? (1999) (5)
The Problem of Closure in Derrida (Part One) (1992) (5)
Interpreting Heidegger: The null basis-being of a nullity, or between two nothings: Heidegger's uncanniness (2011) (4)
Poetry as philosophy - on Wallace Stevens (2005) (4)
Derrida's Influence on Philosophy … And On My Work (2005) (4)
The Catechism of the Citizen (2007) (4)
Why Badiou is a Rousseauist and why we should be too (2009) (4)
A self‐fulfilling prophecy: linking belief to behavior (2011) (4)
Impossible Objects: Interviews (2011) (4)
Infinitely demanding anarchism (2009) (3)
Is utopianism dead (2011) (3)
The Mattering of Matter: Documents from the Archive of the International Necronautical Society (2013) (3)
The stone reader : modern philosophy in 133 arguments (2016) (3)
Emmanuel Levinas. Altérité et Responsabilité. Guide de lecture (1998) (3)
XI—The Philosophical Significance of a Poem (On Wallace Stevens) (1996) (3)
Tough Love: A Response to Richard J. Bernstein’s “Is Politics ‘Practicable’ without Religion?” (2014) (2)
Of Chrematology: Joyce and Money (2005) (2)
The hypothesis, the context, the messianic, the political, the economic, the technological - on derrida’s specters of Marx (1995) (2)
Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, Part 1 (2012) (2)
Happy Like God (2009) (2)
Comments on Simon Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding (2008) (2)
On Alain Badiou (1999) (2)
Forgetfulness Must: Politics and Filiation in Blanchot and Derrida (2006) (2)
Déconstruction et communication. Quelques remarques sur Derrida et Habermas (2008) (2)
Qui Vivra Verra (2003) (2)
Derrida. La déconstruction (2008) (2)
Anarchic Law: A review of Proximity, Levinas and the Soul of Law by Desmond Manderson (2007) (1)
Le jour et l’heure (2015) (1)
Interim report of recessional aesthetics (2009) (1)
Cynicism We Can Believe In (2009) (1)
What Is a Philosopher? (2010) (1)
Tragedy’s Philosophy (2017) (1)
Noises off – on Ibsen (2007) (1)
Sounding desire: On tricky 1 (1999) (1)
Book Reviews (1994) (1)
The overcoming of overcoming: On Dominique Janicaud (2003) (1)
Of Poets and Thinkers: A Conversation on Philosophy, Literature and the Rebuilding of the World (2009) (1)
Why Badiou is a Rousseauist (2012) (1)
L'esprit de l'argent. Autour des ecrits de Jacques Derrida sur l'argent (2004) (1)
Surfaciality: Some Poems by Fernando Pessoa, one by Wallace Stevens, and the brief Sketch of a Poetic Ontology (2015) (1)
The Ethics of Deconstruction (2014) (1)
Tragedy, Rage, Grief and Being an Arsehole (2012) (1)
ABC of Impossibility (2015) (1)
What is the hole Inside the hole? : On David Lynch’s inland empire (2010) (1)
12. Autour des écrits de Jacques Derrida sur l'argent (2004) (1)
Fear and fantasy (2006) (1)
Why I Love Mormonism (2012) (1)
On Heidegger’S Being and Time (2020) (1)
A puppet or a God? On the films of Philippe Parreno (2009) (1)
History of Philosophy (2009) (1)
Between the Superhuman and the Inhuman (2005) (1)
ハイデガー『存在と時間』を読む (2017) (0)
Working-Class Ballet - A Poetics of Football (2016) (0)
Di and Dodi Die (1997) (0)
Living with music - a playlist (2012) (0)
A confraternity of the faithless : Wilde Christianity (2009) (0)
4. Can Philosophy Change the World? Critique, praxis, emancipation (2001) (0)
A Confraternity of the Faithless: Oscar Wilde as a Heterotopic Citizen (2009) (0)
Writing the Revolution (1990) (0)
“We’re all mad”: Simon Critchley interview (2018) (0)
Levinas and Hitlerism (2014) (0)
Books Received (1992) (0)
You Are Not Your Own: On the Nature of Faith (2021) (0)
Our confrontation with tragedy (2019) (0)
BULLETIN OF THE HEGEL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN (2013) (0)
oetry, philosophy and life as it is (2005) (0)
Introduction: What is Continental Philosophy? (2017) (0)
In Memoriam: Dominique Janicaud (1937-2002) (2003) (0)
The Tragedy of Existence (2021) (0)
Book reviews (2004) (0)
It Nothing Must (2014) (0)
Politics and Religion in the Social Contract (2016) (0)
The Danger of Monsters (2005) (0)
Can Religion Make You Free? A Sermon on Diabolical Happiness (2013) (0)
Qui Vivra Verra—Obituary for Dominique Janicaud (2003) (0)
5. What is to be Done? How to respond to nihilism (2001) (0)
Philip K. Dick, Philosophe S-F (2013) (0)
Tate declaration on inauthenticity (2009) (0)
Obituary: Jacques Derrida, 1930–2004 (2005) (0)
The Need for Fiction in Poetry and Politics: An Interview (2006) (0)
Epilogue: Repetition, repetition, repetition: Richard Prince and the three r's (2016) (0)
From the Preface to the French edition of Une exigence infinie (2013) (0)
Truth or dare (2008) (0)
The Freedom of Faith—A Christmas Sermon (2012) (0)
Otherness and Democracy (2009) (0)
A Dialectic of Dissatisfaction (2017) (0)
Is Humanism the Last Resort (2005) (0)
Prefatory Note (1996) (0)
3. Spectacles and Eyes to See With: Two cultures in philosophy (2001) (0)
How to Make It in the Afterlife (2009) (0)
Anarchic law : Law and humanities (2009) (0)
1. The Gap between Knowledge and Wisdom (2001) (0)
Laughing at foreigners : A peculiar of ethnic humour (2009) (0)
8. Sapere aude: The exhaustion of theory and the promise of philosophy (2001) (0)
Jacques Derrida (2005) (0)
The CounterText Interview: Simon Critchley (2016) (0)
Taking an ethical turn (1997) (0)
Satura Resartus: Living in the Woods with Bears (2005) (0)
The tragical sublime (2011) (0)
Lecture 3: Know happiness – on Beckett (2004) (0)
Why the Super-Ego is Your Amigo – My Sense of Humour and Freud’s Seven (2011) (0)
Conclusion: What ‘Overcoming’ Means (2005) (0)
From Foreseeable Risks to the Unforeseeable (2005) (0)
Being as Inauthentic as Possible (2005) (0)
Arresting demises of celebrated philosopers (2009) (0)
Why we’re all bastards (2001) (0)
Heidegger for Beginners1 (2020) (0)
Pantin ou divinité? A propos des films de Philippe Parreno (2009) (0)
Derrida, le lecteur (2006) (0)
Déconstruction et pragmatisme (2010) (0)
Pour ainsi dire – vingt et une propositions (2006) (0)
A Dialectic of Dissatisfaction: Interviewing Simon Critchley on Education and Philosophy (2017) (0)
L'utopisme, est-il mort? (2010) (0)
The one true philosophy of clothes (2009) (0)
Lecture 1: Il y a (2004) (0)
Chapter Twenty-One (2019) (0)
6. A Case Study in Misunderstanding: Heidegger and Carnap (2001) (0)
The null basis-being of a nullity : Heidegger's uncanniness (2011) (0)
Impossible Objects: Interviews with S. Critchley (2011) (0)
An open letter in support of Jason Rezaian (2015) (0)
Rausch: Simon Critchley asks how and why music matters (2004) (0)
What is the meaning of meaning (2022) (0)
Bald: 35 Philosophical Short Cuts (2021) (0)
I Want to Die, I Hate my Life -- Phaedra's Malaise (2004) (0)
The sports show : athletics as image and spectacle (2012) (0)
7. The Tragedy of Misrecognition—The Desire for a Catholic Shakespeare and Hegel’s Hamlet (2014) (0)
Resistance is utile : Authoritarianism versus anarchism (2011) (0)
Bringing Intellect to the Soapbox: An Exchange (2016) (0)
Klopp’s Heideggerianism 1 (2018) (0)
I'm on my way [Vinyl record] (2013) (0)
allace tevens’s intimidating thesis (2005) (0)
Coin of Praise (2009) (0)
You Are Not Your Own (2015) (0)
Ethical Experience, Ethical Subjectivity (2008) (0)
2. Origins of Continental Philosophy: How to get from Kant to German Idealism (2001) (0)
Introduction (2002) (0)
The lives of dead philosophers (2012) (0)
Selected exerpts from The Book of Fragments (2009) (0)
Writing the Revolution The Politics of Truth in Genet's Prisoner o f Love (2011) (0)
3.5 'Black Socrates? Questioning the philosophical tradition' (2001) (0)
7. Scientism versus Obscurantism: Avoiding the traditional predicament in philosophy (2001) (0)

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