Саймон Критчли

In this enlightening new Very Short Introduction, Simon Critchley shows us that Continental philosophy encompasses a distinct set of philosophical traditions and practices, with a compelling range of problems all too often ignored by the analytic tradition. He discusses the ideas and approaches of philosophers such as Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Habermas, Foucault, and Derr...

Now collected for the first time in this handsomely designed volume, The Stone Reader presents 133 meaningful and influential essays from the series, placing nearly the entirety of modern philosophical discourse at a reader’s grasp. The book, divided into four broad sections—Philosophy, Science, Religion and Morals, and Society—opens with a series of questions about the scope, history and identity...

The Ethics of Deconstruction, Simon Critchley's first book, was originally published to great acclaim in 1992. The first book to argue for the ethical turn in Derrida's work, it powerfully shows how deconstruction has persuasive ethical consequences that are vital to our thinking through of questions of politics and democracy. Moving away from using deconstruction to find the contradictions inh...

Why do we still have religion? It seems to offer nothing but violence, suppression and conflict. Discussing the relationship between religion and politics, exploring questions of faith, love, human nature and original sin, Simon Critchley asks whether we can establish a faith for the faithless and how it can manifest itself in everyday life, from the identity of love to the role of viol...

Футбол «умнее», чем многие другие виды спорта, и даже для того, чтобы быть болельщиком, нужен незаурядный интеллект. Убежденный в этом Саймон Кричли раскрывает секреты суперпопулярности этой игры, рассуждая о таланте и командной сущности, об эстетике и поэтике, страсти и расчете – и об ощущении совершаемого на поле здесь и сейчас волшебства. Кроме этого, он обращается к жизненной философии таких л...

Suicide is everywhere. It haunts history and current events. It haunts our own networks of friends and family. The spectre of suicide looms large, but the topic is taboo because any meaningful discussion must at the very least consider that the answer to the question - 'is life worth living?' - might not be an emphatic yes; it might even be a stern no. Through a sweeping historical overview of sui...

Simon Critchley first encountered David Bowie in the early seventies, when the singer appeared on Britain?s most-watched music show, Top of the Pops. His performance of ?Starman? mesmerized Critchley: it was ?so sexual, so knowing, so strange.? Two days later Critchley?s mum bought a copy of the single; she liked both the song and the performer?s bright orange hair (she had previously been a haird...

"A magnificent and deceptively slim book, in which no essay takes longer to read than it would take to listen to a David Bowie song, but in which there is a cumulative sense of revelation as regards what makes Bowie special, and why it is that his work seems to yield more, the more time you spend there. The book is delightful, highly readable, with bits of Nietzsche, Ruskin, Roland Barthes and Del...