Simon Critchley
Author · 25 books
Simon Critchley (born 27 February 1960 in Hertfordshire) is an English philosopher currently teaching at The New School. He works in continental philosophy. Critchley argues that philosophy commences in disappointment, either religious or political. These two axes may be said largely to inform his published work: religious disappointment raises the question of meaning and has to, as he sees it, deal with the problem of nihilism; political disappointment provokes the question of justice and raises the need for a coherent ethics [...]
Series
Books
The Ethics of Deconstruction
Derrida and Levinas
1992
Very Little…Almost Nothing
Death, Philosophy, Literature
2004
Mysticism
2024
A Companion to Continental Philosophy
1998
Infinitely Demanding
Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance
2007
On Heidegger's Being and Time
2008
The Problem with Levinas
2015
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
2019
Things Merely Are
Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens
2005
Memory Theater
2014
The Faith of the Faithless
Experiments in Political Theology
2012
Continental Philosophy
A Very Short Introduction
2001
How to Stop Living and Start Worrying
Conversations with Carl Cederstrm
2010
On Humour
2002
The Book of Dead Philosophers
2008
ABC of Impossibility
2015
On Mysticism
The Experience of Ecstasy
2024
Bowie
2014
Notes on Suicide
2015
Impossible Objects
2011
Ethics - Politics - Subjectivity
Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary French Thought
1998
Deconstruction and Pragmatism
1996
What We Think About When We Think About Soccer
2017
Bald
35 Philosophical Short Cuts
2021
The Cambridge Companion to Levinas
2002
