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Simon Critchley

Auteur van The Book of Dead Philosophers

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English philosopher Simon Critchley was born on February 27, 1960. He earned his BA (1985) and PhD (1988) from the University of Essex in England. Critchley received his M.Phil. from France's University of Nice in 1987. Critchley has held university fellow, lecturer, reader, and professor positions toon meer and was the Director of the Centre for Theoretical Studies at the University of Essex. Additionally, Critchley was President of the British Society for Phenomenology from 1994-1999, he held a Humboldt Research Fellowship in Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, and was Programme Director of the Collège International de Philosophie. Since 2004 Critchley has taught philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. Critchley's publications include "The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas," the collection of essays "Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity," "Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction," "On Humour," "Things Merely Are," "Infinitely Demanding," and the New York Times bestseller "The Book of Dead Philosophers". (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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Werken van Simon Critchley

The Book of Dead Philosophers (2008) 510 exemplaren
Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings (1996) — Redacteur — 174 exemplaren
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (2019) 129 exemplaren
Memory Theatre (1600) 120 exemplaren
Humor (2002) 112 exemplaren
The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (2002) — Redacteur — 90 exemplaren
Notes on Suicide (1800) 73 exemplaren
A Companion to Continental Philosophy (1998) — Redacteur — 68 exemplaren
Bowie (2014) 67 exemplaren
Deconstruction and Pragmatism (1996) 54 exemplaren
Re-Reading Levinas (1991) — Redacteur — 45 exemplaren
Impossible Objects (2011) 26 exemplaren
The Anarchist Turn (2013) — Redacteur — 21 exemplaren
Bald: 35 Philosophical Short Cuts (2021) 14 exemplaren
The Problem with Levinas (2015) 12 exemplaren
Laclau: A Critical Reader (2004) 12 exemplaren
Deconstructive Subjectivities (1996) — Redacteur — 11 exemplaren
On Bowie (2016) 8 exemplaren
ABC of Impossibility (Univocal) (2015) 6 exemplaren
Philippe Parreno (2009) 4 exemplaren
Mizah Üzerine (2020) 3 exemplaren
Sleepwalkers (2014) 3 exemplaren
Tragedia Y Modernidad (2014) 3 exemplaren
Suicide (2016) 3 exemplaren
Sobre El Humor (2010) 2 exemplaren
Note sul suicidio 1 exemplaar
Imansizlarin Imani (2013) 1 exemplaar
Is Utopianism Dead? 1 exemplaar
Le jour et l'heure (2015) 1 exemplaar
Mystical Anarchism 1 exemplaar

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Tragedy presents a world of conflict and troubling emotion, a world where private and public lives collide and collapse. A world where morality is ambiguous and the powerful humiliate and destroy the powerless. A world where justice always seems to be on both sides of a conflict and sugarcoated words serve as cover for clandestine operations of violence. A world rather like our own.

The ancient Greeks hold a mirror up to us, in which we see all the desolation and delusion of our lives but also the terrifying beauty and intensity of existence. This is not a time for consolation prizes and the fatuous banalities of the self-help industry and pop philosophy.

Tragedy allows us to glimpse, in its harsh and unforgiving glare, the burning core of our aliveness. If we give ourselves the chance to look at tragedy, we might see further and more clearly
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56
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5
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2,820
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#9,094
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½ 3.6
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37
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