| Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, talking about FWJ Schelling's theory of tragedy, the relationship between reason and mythology, freedom and fate, and the way the tragic unities Kant's first and second critiques. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses GWF Hegel, Friedrich Hölderlin, Immanuel Kant, aesthetics, beauty, poetry and William Shakespeare in relationship to Catholicism and Protestantism, Antigone, substance, subject, individuality, Friedrich Nietzsche, Pèter Szondi focusing tragedy in the contemporary world, Julian Assange, Wikileaks, Bradley Manning, materialism and idealism, nomads, Jesus, hospitality and refugees. European Graduate School EGS |
