Simon Critchley gives philosophy seminar "The Meaning of Ethical Commitment and the Possibility of Political Resistance" Mar. 27

Date: Mar. 27, 2008
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: Keller Hall Reception Room

Dr. Simon Critchley of the New School of Social Research will discuss “The Meaning of Ethical Commitment and the Possibility of Political Resistance” on March 27 as part of the Department of Philosophy’s Speaker Series.

Simon Critchley has a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Essex, a M.A. in philosophy from the Université de Nice and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Essex. He is currently a professor at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Critchley has concentrated in Continental philosophy, phenomenology, philosophy and literature, psychoanalysis and the ethical and the political and his current research interests are in the nature of poetry and ethics. He has written several books: Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens (2005); On Humor (2002); Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2001); Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas, and Contemporary French Thought (1999); Very Little, Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature (1997); and The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas (1992).

Posted February 20, 2008