Simon Critchley Interview (Episode 4) (03)

Simon Critchley (born February 27, 1960) is an English philosopher now teaching in the U.S., who works in continental philosophy, history of philosophy, literature, ethics and politics. Critchley argues that philosophy begins in disappointment, either religious or political. In many ways, these two axes of disappointment organize his published work. Religious disappointment raises the question of meaning and has to deal with the problem of nihilism. Political disappointment provokes the question of justice and raises the need for an ethics. His latest book, The Book of Dead Philosophers (2008) is an extended defense of the idea that to philosophize is to learn how to die, The Book of Dead Philosophers was published by Granta in the UK, Vintage in the US and Melbourne University Press in Australia. It is being translated into 6 languages and has been on The New York Times Best-Seller List since March 8th, 2009.

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[Blodhosta]

Sturmark has always come across to me as a self-righteous parrot on the shoulder of Dawkins, and it feels silly to me that he seems to think he's on a crusade in Sweden of all places, which is already such a secular country that half the population never thought about God before Sturmark brought it up.

That said, I'm usually on his side and I have no particular quarrel with him - I guess there's just something about his persona that gives me the instinctive urge to oppose him, haha.