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Simon Critchley. Simon Critchley (born 27 February 1960) is an English philosopher currently teaching at The New School, who writes primarily on the history of philosophy, political theory, religion, ethics, and aesthetics, especially literature and theatre. Critchley works from within the tradition of continental philosophy. He argues that philosophy commences in disappointment, either religious or political. These two axes may be said to inform his published work: religious disappointment raises the question of meaning and has to, as he sees it, deal with the problem of nihilism; political disappointment provokes the question of justice and raises the need for a coherent ethics.
Education and early work[edit] Critchley studied philosophy at the University of Essex (BA 1985, PhD 1988) and at the University of Nice (M.Phil. 1987). Among his teachers were Robert Bernasconi, Jay Bernstein, Frank Cioffi, Dominique Janicaud and Onora O'Neill. Selected works[edit] Very Little... On Humour[edit] Other work[edit] Universe captured in mind-boggling detail by Sloan Digital Sky Survey | Science. A fragment of Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III (SDSS-III) showing walls and clusters of galaxies visible from the southern hemisphere. Photograph: SDSS-III/PA It is the culmination of a decade spent scanning the night skies and would take half a million high-definition televisions to view at its full resolution.
With more than a trillion pixels, this is the most detailed digital picture of the universe ever produced. It replaces an image that is now over half a century old, created on photographic plates by the Palomar Sky Survey in the 1950s but still used by astronomers today. By contrast, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's third and final release of data (SDSS-III) was created using a 138-megapixel camera attached to a 2.5 metre telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico. "There are half a billion objects detected in this image," said David Weinberg, an astronomer at Ohio State University who worked on the SDSS image. Each pixel contains data in five different colours of light. More Critchley Reactions. The real problem with giving a philosophical lightweight and poseur like Critchley a public platform is the damage it does to the image and reputation of philosophy, including, importantly, the Continental traditions in philosophy.
I linked in my earlier piece to a couple of good criticisms, but here are a few more that have come my way: Roman Altschuler (who, by the way, had the most interesting defense of Critchley last time around) tries to give a charitable reading of the silly column, but can't sustain it, to his credit. Jean Kazez has a patient critical discussion of the 'substance' of the column (though, to clarify, I was not and am not worried about Critchley's credentials--those are all in order [PhD in philosophy, teacher of the subject, etc.] --but about his philosophical competence as evidenced by his work. Kazez's critique nicely confirms that worry I thought). She has more thoughts here.
What is a philosopher? And, finally, a word from Nietzsche on philosophers and lawyers: Immanuel Kant « Prosthetics. (This is, at present, the first chapter of my PhD dissertation for the European Graduate School, 2009) Hell is other people.[1] – Jean Paul Sartre Before the island – and Capri will never be Patmos – there will have been a Promised Land. How to improvise and allow oneself to be surprised in speaking of it? [2] – Jacques Derrida “God is dead. God remains dead. You know the story – “God is Dead” and, tritely put: Without him, life is meaningless, absurd. Or it’s a trip we always take. If I could only back up and explain. So where were we… Hell is other people. – Jacques Derrida I’m not sure if he ever said it, or wrote it, just like that.
Which brings us to: Hell is other people. – Martin Heidegger Well he didn’t actually say that either. So once again, but never the same: Hell is other people. – Kevin Hart From Heidegger’s being-with to Derrida’s being without. Onto and into that story. So off we go: We’ll begin at the end, with Kevin Hart & Derrida’s first visit to Yale. Immanuel Kant. Taste: 1. Ahb. Foucault and Deleuze conversation online « Foucault blog. Alain Badiou « Verso UK's Blog. Object-Oriented Philosophy. Colin McGinn : Philospot. Roger Scruton | Roger Scruton.