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Simon Critchley. Politics, Nihilism, and the Philosophy of Disappointment

Title:Simon Critchley. Politics, Nihilism, and the Philosophy of Disappointment
Date:2010Length:1:01:57
Simon Critchley, philosopher and professor, talking about philosophy, Wittgenstein, Deleuze, praxis, authenticity, communication, text, and memory. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses living speech, logical speech, logocentrism, phonocentrism, Derrida, virtuality, and aurality, in relationship to historicity, disappointment, limitation, Badiou, theology, nihilism, and Nietzsche. European Graduate School EGS, August 2010