Simon Critchley. Hegel: the Philosopher of Tragedy. 2011

source: European Graduate School    2011年10月6日
http://www.egs.edu Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, talking about Hegel's "Aesthetics," the dialectical dynamic of tragedy and the tragic dynamic of dialectics centered on the resolution of moral ambiguity. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses F.W.J. Schelling, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, the divine life of the community, the relationship between art, religion and philosophy focusing on Christianity, the trinity, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Theodor Adorno, Antigone, substance and subjectivity. 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).