27 Facts About Simon Critchley

Simon Critchley was born on 27 February 1960, in Letchworth, England, to a working-class family originally from Liverpool.

Simon Critchley went to the University of Essex to study literature, but switched to philosophy.

Simon Critchley briefly participated in the Communist Students' Society as well as the Poetry Society.

In 1987, Simon Critchley returned to the University of Essex to write his PhD, completed in 1988, which was to become the basis for The Ethics of Deconstruction.

Simon Critchley became a university fellow at University College Cardiff in 1988.

Simon Critchley has held visiting appointments at Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, University of Nijmegen, University of Sydney, University of Notre Dame, Cardozo Law School, University of Oslo and University of Texas.

Simon Critchley is a professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School.

Since 2004, Simon Critchley has been professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York, at which he became the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy in 2011.

In 2021, Simon Critchley was named by Academic Influence as one of the top 25 most influential philosophers of today.

Simon Critchley discusses his biography in a recent episode of Time Sensitive.

Simon Critchley argues that this Levinasian conception of ethical experience informs Derrida's deconstruction and develops the idea of clotural reading.

Simon Critchley then develops this thesis through discussions of Blanchot, Levinas, Cavell, German Romanticism, Adorno, Derrida, Beckett, and Wallace Stevens.

Simon Critchley defends these claims through discussions of such figures as Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Carnap, and others as well as such topics as the relationship between knowledge and wisdom, literature, science, politics, and nihilism.

In On Humour, Simon Critchley explores the central yet peculiar role that humour, jokes, laughter, and smiling play in human life.

In Things Merely Are, Simon Critchley argues for two claims: that Wallace Stevens's poetry affords significant and illuminating philosophical insights and that the best way to express such insights is poetically.

Specifically, Simon Critchley argues that Stevens's poetry offers readers a novel take on the relationship between mind, language and material things, which overcomes modern epistemology.

From this picture, Simon Critchley develops an account of the experience of conscience before reflecting on the relationship between one's conscience and political action.

Alternatively, Simon Critchley reads Heidegger 'forward' through Heidegger's inheritance of phenomenology.

Impossible Objects is a series of interviews between Simon Critchley conducted between 2000 and 2011.

Simon Critchley defends his view of nonviolence from Zizek's criticism.

In Bowie, Simon Critchley discusses the influence David Bowie's music has had on him throughout his life as well as reflects on the philosophical depth of Bowie's work.

In Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us, Simon Critchley argues that tragedy articulates a philosophical orientation that challenges the traditional authority of philosophy by giving voice to what is contradictory, constricting, and limiting about human beings.

The Stone: Since 2010, Simon Critchley has moderated The Stone in The New York Times, writing many essays himself.

International Necronautical Society : Together with writer Tom McCarthy, Simon Critchley is a founding member of the INS and serves as Head Philosopher.

Guardian Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time: In 2009, Simon Critchley wrote a series of articles for The Guardian.

Debate with Slavoj Zizek: Simon Critchley engaged in a public debate with Zizek.

Simon Critchley responded to Zizek's objection in Naked Punch and his own The Faith of the Faithless.