My favourite writer is Beckett and I keep going back to wallow in his work like a deep pool of dark humour… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Genuinely great humour recognises the world it's describing and yet we are also called into question by it. That's what great art… — 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,"… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we… — 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… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
There's a floating distraction in the contemporary world, life at a distance enabled by technology. I want people to commit at the… — 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… — 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… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people,… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
In relation to the question of hope, I think the only hope we have is hope against hope. We hope for a… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Poetry is difficult, I mean interesting poetry, not confessional babble or emotive propaganda. Reading a new poet is discovering an entire world,… — 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
