| Simon Critchley talking about the relationship between tragedy and philosophy, grief, lamentation, truth, fiction, aesthetics, rhetoric and persuasion.Simon Critchley discusses Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Gorgias and the sophists in relationship to Walter Benjamin, Carl Schmitt, Hamlet, Friedrich Nietzsche, Nicole Loraux, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet and Jacques Lacan focusing on ecstasy, ghosts, the city, tyranny, theater, deception, mimesis, spectatorship, gender trouble and the relationship between antiquity and modernity. European Graduate School EGS |
