http://www.egs.edu Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, fields questions about the nature of tragedy, theater as a medium, and Plato and Aristotle's relationship to ancient Greek tragedy. In this lecture Simon Critchley discusses the concepts of recognition, catharsis, affect, dialtheism, grief, lamentation, technology, autonomy, subjectivity and law in relation to Euripides, Judith Butler, Martin Heidegger, Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brecht focusing on gender, mourning and media theory. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Simon Critchley.

Simon Critchley, Ph.D., is Chair and Professor of Philosophy at The New School, as well as a professor at the European Graduate School (EGS). Simon Critchley was born on February 27, 1960 in Hertfordshire, England. He is a world renowned scholar of Continental Philosophy and phenomenology. Much of his work examines the crucial relationship between the ethical and political within philosophy.

Simon Critchley's published work deals largely with disappointment and it's relationship to philosophy; chiefly, religious or political disappointment. Simon Critchley's published works include: Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida (1999), Levinas, and Contemporary French Thought (1999), The Ethics of Deconstruction (2000), Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2001), On Humour (2002), Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance (2008), and The Book of Dead Philosophers (2008).