Simon Critchley
Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy
Email
critchls@newschool.edu
Office Location
D - 6 East 16th Street
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Simon Critchley is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research and a Director of the Onassis Foundation. His work engages in many areas: continental philosophy, philosophy and literature, psychoanalysis, ethics, and political theory, among others. He has written over twenty books, including studies of Greek tragedy, David Bowie, football, suicide, Shakespeare, how philosophers die, and a novella. As co-editor of The Stone at the New York Times, Critchley showed that philosophy plays a vital role in the public realm. Additional information about Professor Critchley is available at his personal website.
Degrees Held
PhD 1988, University of Essex
Recent Publications
Visit Simon Critchley's website for a complete bibliography. Recent works include:
On Mysticism (New York Review of Books, forthcoming October 2024)
Question Everything: A Stone Reader (W.W. Norton, 2023, co-editor)
Bald: 35 Philosophical Short Cuts (Yale University Press, 2021)
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (Penguin Random House, 2019)
What We Think About When We Think About Soccer (Penguin Random House, 2017)
Suicide (Thought Catalog, 2015)
Memory Theatre (Fitzcarraldo Editions). Kindle Edition (September, 2014)
Bowie (OR Books, 2014)
The Anarchist Turn, with Jacob Blumenfeld and Chiara Bottici (Pluto Press, London)
Stay Illusion: The Hamlet Doctrine (Pantheon Books, New York) (Paperback, Vintage, 2014). Titled The Hamlet Doctrine in the UK (Verso, London, 2013)
The Mattering of Matter. Documents from the Archive of the International Necronautical Society, with Tom McCarthy et al (Sternberg Presss, Berlin)
The Faith of the Faithless (Verso, paperback, 2014)
Impossible Objects (Polity Press, Cambridge, 2011)
How to Stop Living and Start Worrying (Polity Press, Cambridge, 2010)
Portfolio
Personal Website
Current Courses
Hamlet and Philosophy
GPHI 6669, Spring 2025
Hamlet and Philosophy
GLIB 6669, Spring 2025
Ind Senior Project
LPHI 4990, Spring 2025
Independent Study
GPHI 6990, Spring 2025
Independent Study
GLIB 6990, Spring 2025
Reading of Hamlet
LPHI 2006, Spring 2025
Future Courses
Heidegger's Being and Time
GPHI 6053, Fall 2025
Heidegger's Time and Being
LPHI 3024, Fall 2025
Ind Senior Project
LPHI 4990, Fall 2025
Independent Study
LPHI 3950, Fall 2025
Independent Study
GLIB 6990, Fall 2025
Independent Study
GPHI 6990, Fall 2025
Levinas
GPHI 6086, Fall 2025
Past Courses
Heidegger for Beginners
LPHI 3065, Fall 2024
Ind Senior Project
LPHI 4990, Fall 2024
Independent Study
GPHI 6990, Fall 2024
Independent Study
LPHI 3950, Fall 2024
Independent Study
GLIB 6990, Fall 2024
Later Heidegger
GPHI 6128, Fall 2024
Later Heidegger
GLIB 6128, Fall 2024