Simon Critchley
Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy
Email
critchls@newschool.edu
Office Location
D - 6 East 16th Street
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Simon Critchley is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His work engages in many areas: continental philosophy, philosophy and literature, psychoanalysis, ethics, and political theory, among others. His most recent books include The Problem with Levinas and ABC of Impossibility, though he has written on topics as diverse as David Bowie, religion, and suicide. As moderator of The Stone at The New York Times, Critchley asked many philosophers to weigh in on contemporary issues in art, literature, politics, and popular culture. Additional information about Professor Critchley is available at his personal website.
Degrees Held
PhD 1988, University of Essex
Recent Publications
Visit Simon Critchley's website for a complete bibliography. Recent works include:
Question Everything: A Stone Reader (W.W. Norton, 2023, co-editor)
Bald: 35 Philosophical Short Cuts (Yale University Press, 2021)
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (Penguin Random House, 2019)
What We Think About When We Think About Soccer (Penguin Random House, 2017)
Suicide (Thought Catalog, 2015)
Memory Theatre (Fitzcarraldo Editions). Kindle Edition (September, 2014)
Bowie (OR Books, 2014)
The Anarchist Turn, with Jacob Blumenfeld and Chiara Bottici (Pluto Press, London)
Stay Illusion: The Hamlet Doctrine (Pantheon Books, New York) (Paperback, Vintage, 2014). Titled The Hamlet Doctrine in the UK (Verso, London, 2013)
The Mattering of Matter. Documents from the Archive of the International Necronautical Society, with Tom McCarthy et al (Sternberg Presss, Berlin)
The Faith of the Faithless (Verso, paperback, 2014)
Impossible Objects (Polity Press, Cambridge, 2011)
How to Stop Living and Start Worrying (Polity Press, Cambridge, 2010)
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Personal Website