Mystical Anarchism : Indybay

Talk featuring Simon Critchley, Philosophy, New School for Social Research

Simon Critchley is Chair of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He is author of ten books on phenomenology, deconstruction, critical theory, and other traditions in Continental philosophy, including Very Little… Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, and Literature (Routledge, 1997); Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas, and Contemporary French Thought (Verso, 1999); On Humor (Routledge, 2005); and Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens (Routledge, 2005). His work on ethics in Levinas and Derrida in The Ethics of Deconstruction (Purdue, 1992) is widely celebrated. His Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance (Verso, 2007) further develops his reflections on ethics and politics and has resulted in heated polemics with Slavoj Zizek in a variety of academic and public venues.

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Admission: Free

Sponsored by: Supported by the Institute for Humanities Research (UCSC), Co-sponsored by Philosophy Dept UCSC

Mystical Anarchism
Date	Friday April 24
Time	12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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Location Details
Other Campus Location Room: Room 210 - ground floor Humanities Bldg 1 UCSC Map here: http://maps.ucsc.edu/cmhumanities.html
Event Type	Speaker
Organizer/Author	Shann Ritchie
Email	sritchie [at] ucsc.edu
Phone	(831) 459-5655
Talk featuring Simon Critchley, Philosophy, New School for Social Research Simon Critchley is Chair of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He is author of ten books on phenomenology, deconstruction, critical theory, and other traditions in Continental philosophy, including Very Little… Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, and Literature (Routledge, 1997); Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas, and Contemporary French Thought (Verso, 1999); On Humor (Routledge, 2005); and Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens (Routledge, 2005). His work on ethics in Levinas and Derrida in The Ethics of Deconstruction (Purdue, 1992) is widely celebrated. His Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance (Verso, 2007) further develops his reflections on ethics and politics and has resulted in heated polemics with Slavoj Zizek in a variety of academic and public venues. Open to Public Admission: Free Sponsored by: Supported by the Institute for Humanities Research (UCSC), Co-sponsored by Philosophy Dept UCSC For more event information: http://www2.ucsc.edu/culturalstudies/event... Added to the calendar on Thursday Apr 2nd, 2009 10:54 PM

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