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Deconstruction and pragmatism constitute two of the major intellectual influences on the contemporary theoretical scene; influences personified in the...
Simon Critchley's Very Short Introduction shows that Continental philosophy encompasses a distinct set of philosophical traditions and practices, with...
On Heidegger's Being and Time is an outstanding exploration of Heidegger's most important work by two major philosophers. Simon Critchley argues that ...
Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour ...
Death, Philosophy, Literature
The 'death of man', the 'end of history' and even philosophy are strong and troubling currents running through contemporary debates. Yet since Nietzsc...
Starting from the premise that philosophers' deaths have been as interesting as their lives, Simon Critchley looks at the strange circumstances in whi...
Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance
The clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchley's influential views on philosophy, ethics, and politics, Infinitely Demanding i...
Humor is een fascinerend, prachtig geschreven en komisch boek over wat homor ons kan vertellen over onze menselijke natuur. Van de oudheid tot aan de ...
Impossible objects are those about which the philosopher, narrowly conceived, can hardly speak: poetry, film, music, humor. Such "objects" do not rely...
The Hamlet Doctrine
The figure of Hamlet haunts our culture like the ghost haunts Shakespeare’s melancholy Dane. Arguably, no literary work is more familiar to us. Ever...
Conversations with Carl Cederstrm
The question of how to lead a happy and meaningful life has been at the heart of philosophical debate since time immemorial. Today, however, these que...
You play soccer. You watch soccer. You live soccer You breathe soccer. But do you think about soccer? Soccer is the world’s most popular sport, insp...
35 Philosophical Short Cuts
A new and expansive collection of essays from one of the world's best-known popular philosophers The moderator of the New York Times' Stone column and...
Levinas's idea of ethics as a relation of responsibility to the other person has become a highly influential and recognizable position across a wide r...
How does one write an experimental ABC, an impossible theory that would deal with a series of phenomena, concepts, places, sensations, persons, and mo...
Essays on Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary French Thought
In Ethics–Politics–Subjectivity, Simon Critchley takes up three questions at the centre of contemporary theoretical debate: What is ethical experi...
A Novel
From this renowned philosopher comes a debut work of fiction, at once a brilliant précis of the history of philosophy, a semiautobiographical meditat...
Death, Philosophy and Literature
Very Little ... Almost Nothing puts the question of the meaning of life back at the centre of intellectual debate. Its central concern is how we can f...
Derrida and Levinas
It is now widely accepted that The Ethics of Deconstruction was the first book to argue for the ethical turn in Derrida's work and to show as powerful...
Simon Critchley's first book, 'The Ethics of Deconstruction', was originally published to great acclaim in 1992. It was the first book to argue for th...
We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come face to face with the things we don't want...
This book is not a suicide note. Ten days after Edouard Leve handed in the manuscript of Suicide to his publisher in 2007, he hanged himself in his ap...
What do we think about when we think about football? Football is about so many things: memory, history, place, social class, gender (especially mascul...
What made Bowie special? What made him the cultural icon he is today? And what made millions of people around the world tune into his peculiar wavelen...
A probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative phi...
Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens
This book is an invitation to read poetry. Simon Critchley argues that poetry enlarges life with a range of observation, power of expression and atten...
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Experiments in Political Theology
The return to religion has perhaps become the dominant cliché of contemporary theory, which rarely offers anything more than an exaggerated echo of a...
This is part novel, part prose poem illuminated by a series of photographs of New York buildings gradually making and unmaking themselves....
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Loin des bio- ou des hagiographies, un bref récit à la première personne, signé d'un philosophe anglais frappé de stupéfaction lors de sa décou...
Knowing Too Much, Doing Nothing
Arguably, no literary work is more familiar to us than Shakespeare's most famous tragedy. Everyone can quote at least six words from the play; often p...
The Art of the 2010 World Cup
Text by Mami Kataoka, Simon Critchley....