| Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, talking about the Oresteia by Aeschylus, the dynamic of tragedy as two diametrically opposed claims to justice, the resolution of this conflict and it's relationship to dialectical thinking. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses Friedrich Nietzsche's "Birth of Tragedy," the interplay of Dionysian and Apollonian forces, Hegel's reading of tragedy in relationship to both Hölderlin and Schelling, the law, Christa Wolf, Cassandra as the memory of a matriarchal ordering of the city, Jacques Derrida's reading of Antigone in "Glas," the crypt Georges Bataille, Giorgio Agamben, Carl Schmitt, Sven Lindqvist, and the Invisible Committee's "Coming Insurrection." European Graduate School EGS 2011 |
