Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York. He also teaches at Tilburg University and the European Graduate School. His last book was The Mattering of Matter. Documents from the Archive of the International Necronautical Society (with Tom McCarthy, Sternberg, Berlin, 2012) and his next book is Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine (Pantheon, New York, 2013).
ARTICLES FEATURING SIMON
For Crying Out Loud
John Kaag considers "Tragedy, the Greeks and Us," the recently published book by Simon Critchley....
Delight and Disgust: On the Contradictions and Complicities of Soccer
A new book on the poetics of soccer as lived experience....
A Static Form of Remembrance
Simon Critchley’s first novel is a postmodern, virulently metafictional blend of essay, autobiography, apocalyptic revelation, and historical examination....
No Exit for Derrida
Jeremy Butman Interviews Simon Critchley...
The Nietzsche Doctrine
DURING A LONG, misogynistic, masochistic tirade early in his eponymous play, Hamlet accuses himself of being a coward who “Must, like ...
The Anatomy of Disgust
We can't act: we know too much....
The Secularist's Dogma: Simon Critchley's "The Faith of the Faithless"
SIMON CRITCHLEY, A BRITISH PHILOSOPHER based at The New School in New York, is best known for books like Very Little... ...
