The Phenomenology Roundtable and the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought at Temple University will honor The New School’s Simon Critchley at their eighth annual meeting, beginning May 9 at CUNY’s John Jay College. The award is presented annually in recognition of outstanding contributions in phenomenology.

Since 2004, Critchley has been a professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research, where he has focused on continental philosophy, the history of philosophy, literature, ethics, and politics. He also teaches part-time at the University of Essex in England, where he received his PhD in 1988.

Critchley’s recent works include On Humour (Thinking in Action), Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens, Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics and Resistance and his upcoming book, The Book of Dead Philosophers.

The Phenomenology Roundtable was founded in 2000 at a meeting of the Radical Philosophy Association at Loyola University in Chicago to provide a creative and supportive community for phenomenologists to meet and discuss their ongoing work.

Phenomenology, as developed by Edmund Husserl, is a philosophical discipline that investigates consciousness and subjectivity.