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Critchley is also "chief philosopher" of the International Necronautical Society , a semi-fictitious avant-garde network that surfaces through proclamations, "denunciations" and live events. He has collaborated closely with the novelist Tom McCarthy on projects including the society's Declaration on Inauthenticity [ 2 ] and their joint publication on Joyce. A second expanded edition was published in by Edinburgh University Press.
Rather than being concerned with deconstruction in terms of the contradictions inherent in any text — an approach typical of the early Derrida and those in literary criticism aiming to extract a critical method for an application to literature — Critchley concerns himself with the philosophical context necessary for an understanding of the ethics of deconstructive reading. Almost Nothing Routledge, develops in a very different direction and shows his concern with the relation between philosophy and literature and the problem of nihilism.
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A second edition with additional material and a new preface was published in At the centre of Very Little Almost Nothing is the problem of the meaning of life and what sense can be made of this problem in the absence of any religious belief. Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction Oxford University Press, , is both an introduction to that tradition of thinking and an essay in meta-philosophy, which lays out the way in which Critchley sees the role of theory and reflection.
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It has been translated into nine languages. In the book, Critchley addresses the perennial question of the two major Western philosophical traditions, that of analytical and continental philosophy. Critchley tries to avoid sectarianism, and argues that the professional opposition between analytic and Continental philosophy is something that needs to be transcended. Critchley accepts that there is risk within continental philosophy of obscurantism, just as there is a risk of scientism in much analytic philosophy. His On Humour Routledge, continues the meditation on nihilism begun in Very Little…Almost Nothing ; but he continues it in a very different key, analysing the meaning and importance of humour.
Critchley argues that humour is an oblique phenomenology of ordinary bringing about a change of situation that exerts a powerful critical function. On Humour has been translated into 8 languages and has exerted considerable influence over debates around the role of humour in contemporary art practice. In Things Merely Are Routledge, , Critchley examines the relation between philosophy and poetry through an extended meditation on the poetry of Wallace Stevens. Infinitely Demanding Verso, is the most systematic overview of Critchley's philosophical position.
It combines a meta-ethics based on the concepts of approval and demand with a phenomenology of ethical experience and ethical subjectivity.
At the centre of the book is a theory of ethical subjectivity based on the relation to an infinite demand. Critchley extends his analysis into discussions of aesthetics and sublimation and into political theory and practice.
Critchley argues for an ethically committed political anarchism. German and Italian translations appeared in and it is being translated into 3 other languages.
Spanish Santillana , Italian Garzanti and Greek Patakis translations appeared in and it is being translated into 7 other languages. Abstraction is a cipher for the defeats of the extra-parliamentary left and the imposition of a seemingly inescapable postmodern capitalism, but it is also the starting-point for an attempt to reconstruct a potent political subject in the midst of a world wholly subsumed by capital and the commodity-form.
For the full contents list, see Continental Philosophy. What can be said of the subject who has this experience?
What, if any, is the relation of ethical experience to politics? Finitude gets a grip on the self through the experience of conscience. For me, the discussion of conscience contains the most exciting and challenging pages in Being and Time. Read the full article on Guardian Cif here.
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