Category Archives: Simon Critchley

Simon Critchley on Finding Clarity in Philosophy and Comedy, interview by Andrew Zuckerman

Posted on February 3, 2021 by stuartelden

Simon Critchley on Finding Clarity in Philosophy and Comedy, interview by Andrew Zuckerman Simon Critchley has seen his share of accidents. In his younger years, he damaged his hands while working in manufacturing plants, and ruined his hearing by rehearsing with … Continue reading →

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Interview with Simon Critchley and excerpt from The Hamlet Doctrine in Berfrois

Posted on June 24, 2014 by stuartelden

Interview with Simon Critchley at Berfrois, plus an excerpt from his co-authored book The Hamlet Doctrine – via the Verso blog.

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Verso’s Reading List on Christianity

Posted on April 22, 2014 by stuartelden

As a riposte to David Cameron’s comments about Christianity (or just to sell some books), Verso have put together a list of their studies of Christianity. Régis Debray, Slavoj Žižek, Simon Critchley, Ernst Bloch, Terry Eagleton, Wu Ming…

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7 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in March

Posted on April 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Critical-theory.com has another list of recently published books – Roudinesco on Lacan, Despret & Stengers, Negra & Tasker, Critchley, Shults, Zizek and Grant.

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Simon Critchley and Philip Seymour Hoffman – video recording of discussion at Rubin Museum of Art

Posted on February 5, 2014 by stuartelden

In Memoriam: Philip Seymour Hoffman Just over a year ago philosopher Simon Critchley met with Philip Seymour Hoffman for the final in a series of on-stage conversations called Happy Talk. In a searching dialogue that in hindsight seems prescient, the … Continue reading →

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Critical.Theory.com’s 15 books to be excited about in 2014

Posted on December 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Critical.Theory.com’s 15 books to be excited about in 2014 – full list here. Some of these are new, some new translations, some new editions, but lots to get excited about – Derrida, Althusser, Jameson, Critchley, Laclau, Massumi & Manning etc.

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Books received

Posted on September 27, 2013 by stuartelden

Two books for the Foucault project – a collection of pieces on the first volume of the History of Sexuality, and the only other volume of Les Vies Parallèles series Foucault initiated (the first was the Herculine Barbin memoir); David Harvey’s A … Continue reading →

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more on Critchley and Webster, The Hamlet Doctrine

Posted on September 25, 2013 by stuartelden

The Verso blog has some more links.

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Simon Critchley discusses Hamlet

Posted on September 21, 2013 by stuartelden

In The Guardian Simon Critchley discusses Hamlet – a preview of his recently published co-authored book The Hamlet Doctrine, with Jamieson Webster.

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Verso radical thinkers – brief introductory videos in The Guardian

Posted on July 26, 2013 by stuartelden

From the Verso blog: At the beginning of the year we published another twelve titles in our seventh edition of The Radical Thinkers series including works by Alain Badiou, Willhelm Reich, Max Horkheimer, Simon Critchley and Ludwig Feuerbach. A fortnightly series of events introducing this latest set was … Continue reading →

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