If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
There are lots of stories about how philosophy begins. Some people claim it begins in wonder; some people claim it begins in… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Shore up the mean with reverence and terror. But never banish terror from the gates of the state. The stronger the fear,… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
That is to say, politics is essentially about the management of fear, an economy of fear, continually adjusting the level of fear… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing religion, teaching… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
We live in a world that is dominated by science. And that's not a bad thing - not at all. But one of the… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox. — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief is not… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is to say,… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Philosophy for me is essentially atheistic. Now that's an anxious atheism. It's an atheism that is anxious because it inhabits questions that were resolved… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
For me philosophy begins with these experiences of disappointment: a disappointment at the level of what I would think of as "meaning," namely that,… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert that justice… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
The influence of being in New York, made me realize a lot of the ethical and political ideas I want to push or promote… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is being spilled… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Melancholia for Freud is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls conscience or… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
