Simon Critchley

Simon Critchley is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. Critchley is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas (Blackwell, 1992); Continental Philosophy. A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2001), ... Read more

Simon Critchley is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. Critchley is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas (Blackwell, 1992); Continental Philosophy. A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2001), which translated into 9 languages; and On Humour (Routledge, 2002), which was translated into 8 languages. The Book of Dead Philosophers (Vintage, 2009), made it onto The New York Times extended bestseller list and has been translated into 15 languages and counting. Critchley is also series moderator of ‘The Stone’, a popular online philosophy column for The New York Times and contributes to it regularly as well as writing for The Guardian. Two books of interviews with Critchley are being published, How to Stop Living and Start Worrying (Polity, 2010) and Impossible Objects (Polity, 2011). The Faith of the Faithless, a major new work on the relation between politics and religion, is forthcoming from Verso in February 2012.