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Simon Critchley. From Tragic Theater to Dialectic Philosophy

Title:Simon Critchley. From Tragic Theater to Dialectic Philosophy
Date:06/02/2011Length:0:48:55
Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, talking about the tragedy as the transition from myth to law and the relationship between theater and philosophy, Plato's Republic, moral ambiguity, law, tyranny and sovereignty. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses Socrates, subjectivity, Aristotle and hamartia in relationship to Karl Marx, Georg Lukács, Thomas Hobbes, the force of law, Hölderlin, Hegel, Oedipus, Kant, the sublime and the monstrous, focusing on theater, dialogue and mimesis. European Graduate School EGS