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Simon Critchley. Oedipus the Monster

Title:Simon Critchley. Oedipus the Monster
Date:06/05/2011Length:0:56:09
Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, talking about the tyrant as pervert and monster in Oedipus and Antigone. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses tragedy, the city, the obscene, tragic irony, the riddle, rage, neurosis, Sigmund Freud, Aeschylus, Sophocles, in relationship to Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Rene Girard, Friedrich Schelling and guilt focusing on the pharmakos, pollution, poison, and the scapegoat. European Graduate School EGS 2011