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1. On Heidegger's Being and Time

   By Simon Critchley, Reiner Schürmann

   Edited by Steven Levine

   On Heidegger's Being and Time is an outstanding exploration of Heidegger's most important work by two major philosophers. Simon Critchley argues that we must see Being and Time as a radicalization of Husserl's phenomenology, particularly his theories of intentionality, categorial intuition, and the...

   Published June 29th 2008 by Routledge
2. Things Merely Are

   Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens

   By Simon Critchley

   This book is an invitation to read poetry. Simon Critchley argues that poetry enlarges life with a range of observation, power of expression and attention to language that eclipses any other medium. In a rich engagement with the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Critchley reveals that poetry also contains...

   Published February 10th 2005 by Routledge
3. Laclau

   A Critical Reader

   Edited by Simon Critchley, Oliver Marchart

   Laclau: A Critical Reader is the first full-length critical appraisal of Laclau's work and includes contributions from several leading philosophers and theorists. The first section examines Laclau's theory that the contest between universalism and particularism provides much of the philosophical...

   Published August 25th 2004 by Routledge
4. Very Little ... Almost Nothing

   Death, Philosophy and Literature, 2nd Edition

   By Simon Critchley

   Series: Warwick Studies in European Philosophy

   Very Little ... Almost Nothing puts the question of the meaning of life back at the centre of intellectual debate. Its central concern is how we can find a meaning to human finitude without recourse to anything that transcends that finitude. A profound but secular meditation on the theme of death,...

   Published May 19th 2004 by Routledge
5. Humor

   By Simon Critchley

   Series: Routledge filosofie

   Humor is een fascinerend, prachtig geschreven en komisch boek over wat homor ons kan vertellen over onze menselijke natuur.Van de oudheid tot aan de moderne tijd en puttend uit het werk van een breed scala aan auteurs, in het bijzonder Swift, Sterne, Shaftesbury, Bergson, Beckett en Freud, keert...

   Published November 20th 2002 by Routledge
6. On Humour

   By Simon Critchley

   Series: Thinking in Action

   Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley skilfully probes some of the most perennial but least understood aspects of humour, such as our...

   Published May 30th 2002 by Routledge
7. Very Little...Almost Nothing

   Death, Philosophy, Literature

   By Simon Critchley

   The 'death of man', the 'end of history' and even philosophy are strong and troubling currents running through contemporary debates. Yet since Nietzsche's heralding of the 'death of god', philosophy has been unable to explain the question of finitude.Very Little...Almost Nothing goes to the heart...

   Published January 21st 2002 by Routledge
8. Deconstruction and Pragmatism

   By Simon Critchley, Jacques Derrida, Ernesto Laclau, Richard Rorty

   Edited by Chantal Mouffe

   Deconstruction and pragmatism constitute two of the major intellectual influences on the contemporary theoretical scene; influences personified in the work of Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty. Both Rortian pragmatism, which draws the consequences of post-war developments in Anglo-American...

   Published September 4th 1996 by Routledge