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Simon Critchley (British philosopher)

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Simon Critchley (born 27 February 1960) is an English philosopher and the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York, USA.

Challenging the ancient tradition that philosophy begins in wonder, Critchley argues that philosophy begins in disappointment. Two particular forms of disappointment inform Critchley's work: religious and political disappointment. While religious disappointment arises from a lack of faith and generates the problem of what is the meaning of life in the face of nihilism, political disappointment comes from the violent world we live in and raises the question of justice in a violently unjust world. In addition, to these two regions of research, Critchley's recent works have engaged in more experimental forms of writing on Shakespeare, David Bowie, suicide, Greek tragedy and association football.

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NameFormatISBNRelease Date
Mystischer AnarchismusPaperback978-3-88396-318-12012-08-01
What We Think About When We Think About FootballPaperback978-1-78125-921-42017
Unendlich fordernd: Ethik der Verpflichtung, Politik des WiderstandsPaperback978-3-03734-047-92008
Notes on Suicide (3rd edition)Paperback978-1-910695-06-72016
Über HumorPaperback978-3-85132-399-32004
On BowiePaperback978-1-78125-745-62016-04-07
Impossible Objects: InterviewsPaperback978-0-7456-5321-12011-12-12
Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political TheologyHardcover978-1-84467-737-52012-02
How to Stop Living and Start Worrying: Conversations with Carl CederströmPaperback978-0-7456-5039-52010-10-11
GedächtnistheaterPaperback978-3-03734-626-62019-11
Der Katechismus des Bürgers: Politik, Gesetz und Religion bei, gemäß, mit und gegen RousseauPaperback978-3-03734-032-52008
The Book of Dead PhilosophersPaperback978-0-307-39043-12009-02-10
The Cambridge Companion to LevinasPaperback978-0-521-66565-02002-08-26
On Heidegger’s Being and TimePaperback978-0-415-77596-02008-08-22
The Anarchist TurnPaperback978-0-7453-3342-72013-03
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57674
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0000 0001 1036 9280
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OL32189A
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0000-0001-8517-5659
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7446563
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Q923743

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