Simon Critchley

Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Onassis Foundation. His books include Very Little…Almost Nothing (1997), Infinitely Demanding (2007), The Book of Dead Philosophers (2009) and The Faith of the Faithless (2012). He has also writtena novella, Memory Theatre (2015), a book-length essay, Notes on Suicide (2020) and studies of David Bowie, Football and Apply-Degger (Onassis, 2020). More recent books areTragedy, The Greeks and Us (Pantheon, 2019) and Bald (Yale, 2021). He was series moderator of ‘The Stone’, a philosophy column in The New York Times and co-editor of three volumes connected to the series, most recently Question Everything (2022). He is 50% of an obscure musical combo called Critchley & Simmons, whose new album, Gone Forever, is released in 2024. Mysticism – The Experience of Ecstasy will be published by The New York Review of Books (USA) and Profile (UK) in 2024, as well as a book on tragedy called I Want to Die, I Hate My Life with ERIS.