http://www.egs.edu Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, talking about Martin Heidegger's reading of tragedy, especially Oedipus and Antigone, as a movement from appearance towards being. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses Heidegger's relationship to the Nazis, Volk, "Geist," Theodor Adorno and Jürgen Habermas in relationship to Hubert Dreyfus, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Dominique Janicaud, Giorgio Agamben and Parmenides, focusing on truth, the strangeness of human beings, power, terror, violence and anxiety. 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).