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[ Simon Critchley ]
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[http://www.essex.ac.uk/philosophy/Staff_Profiles/s_sc.htm
Simon Critchley, BA Essex, Maitrise de Philosophie Nice, PhD Essex
Room: 5B.143
Telephone (external): (+44) 01206 872706
Telephone (internal): 2706
Facsimile: (+44) 01206 873377
Email: simonc (non-Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk)
Simon Critchley studied philosophy as an undergraduate at Essex before completing a Maitrise de Philosophie at the University of Nice and returning to Essex where he was awarded a PhD in philosophy.
In 1988, he was appointed a University Fellow in Philosophy and English at University of Wales, College of Cardiff. In 1997 and 2001 he held a Humboldt Research Fellowship in Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. He is a Programme Director of the Collège Internationale de Philosophie, Paris. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia and during 2002 he will be Visiting Professor at Notre Dame University, USA.
Main interests: modern Continental philosophy, phenomenology, philosophy and literature, psychoanalysis; the ethical and the political; Heidegger, Freud, Derrida, Levinas, Blanchot, Lacan.
Current research: the idea of ethical commitment and political action, the philosophical importance of poetry and Heidegger's early work.
Selected Publications:
- "The philosophical significance of a poem (on Wallace Stevens)", in Jonathan Wolff (ed.) Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, XCVI (1996), pp.269-91
- Very Little…Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature (London and New York, Routledge, 1997)
- Ethics, Politics and Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary French Thought, (London/New York, Verso 1999)
- "Heidegger for beginners" in James E Faulconer and Mark A Wrathall (eds.) Appropriating Heidegger, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000) pp. 101-118
- The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas (Blackwell, Oxford, 1992; second edition, Edinburgh University Press, 1999)
- Continental Philosophy. A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001)
- On Humour (Routledge, London and New York, 2002)
- Re-Reading Levinas, with Robert Bernasconi (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1991)
- Deconstructive Subjectivities, with Peter Dews (State University of New York Press, Albany, 1996)
- Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings, with Robert Bernasconi and Adriaan Peperzak (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1996)
- A Companion to Continental Philosophy, with William Schroeder (Blackwell, Oxford,1998)
- The Cambridge Companion to Emmanuel Levinas, with Robert Bernasconi (Cambridge Univerity Press, Cambridge, 2001) ]
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