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Simon Critchley is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research and a Director of the Onassis Foundation. His work engages in many areas: continental philosophy, philosophy and literature, psychoanalysis, ethics, and political theory, among others. He has written over twenty books, including studies of Greek tragedy, David Bowie, football, suicide, Shakespeare, how philosophers die, and a novella. As co-editor of The Stone at the New York Times, Critchley showed that philosophy plays a vital role in the public realm. Additional information about Professor Critchley is available at his personal website.

PhD 1988, University of Essex

Visit Simon Critchley's website for a complete bibliography. Recent works include:

On Mysticism (New York Review of Books, forthcoming October 2024)

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)