We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come face to face with the things we don't want to know about ourselves, but which still make us who we are. It articulates the...

A new and expansive collection of essays from one of the world's best-known popular philosophers von Critchley, Simon

An attempt to understand the phenomenon of suicide, what precedes it and what follows. Considers suicide from the point of view of those who have made the leap, or have come close to it. From the author of "Memory Theatre". von...

The emphasis on tragedy among the poets, dramatists and philosophers of Ancient Greece is presented as something instructive to the now, in this book from the series moderator of "New York Times" philosophy column 'The Stone'. von...

"The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas" von Simon Critchley ist eine philosophische Untersuchung, die sich mit den ethischen Dimensionen der Dekonstruktion auseinandersetzt. Critchley analysiert die Werke von Jacques Derrida...

In "What We Think About When We Think About Football" von Simon Critchley untersucht der Autor die philosophischen und kulturellen Aspekte des Fußballs. Critchley, selbst ein begeisterter Fußballfan, verbindet persönliche Anekdoten mit...