Philosophy isn't programmed into us, and a lot of the forces of our culture steadfastly work against it. Philosophy, for me, is… — Simon Critchley Affirming Copy Share Image
There is something desperately lonely about Barack Obama's universe. One gets the overwhelming sense of someone yearning for connection, for something that… — Simon Critchley Barack Copy Share Image
Christianity in the West, opens up a perspective of depth into what it means to be a self. And that depth of… — Simon Critchley Augustine 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 Belief 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 Difficult Copy Share Image
The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from… — Simon Critchley Accepting Copy Share Image
Here we observe the basic obsessive fantasy of Žižek's position: do nothing, sit still, prefer not to, like Melville's Bartleby, and silently… — Simon Critchley Brutal 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 Art 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 Disappointment Copy Share Image
So yes, I'm trying to think about the connections between politics and poetry. There's an awful lot you could say here.Poetics is… — Simon Critchley Awful Copy Share Image
I have argued that philosophy doesn't begin in wonder or in the fact that things are, it begins in a realization that… — Simon Critchley Facts Copy Share Image
The culture of irony is the culture of postmodernism, which I would furiously want to denounce. We have to act ethically and… — Simon Critchley Commitment Copy Share Image
The thing about humour is that the super-ego is also at play, so what interested me, particularly in the last chapter which… — Simon Critchley Ability Copy Share Image
In the US, what passes for Christianity - and it is, to say the least, a highly perverse, possessive individualist and capitalist… — Simon Critchley Capitalist 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… — Simon Critchley Acceptance Copy Share Image
Being anthropologically respectful of all faiths means being committed to none, and being left to drift without an anchor for one's most… — Simon Critchley Anchors 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… — Simon Critchley Activity Copy Share Image
