| Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, fielding questions about the relationship between philosophy and tragedy with specific focus on the queering of gender within tragedy. In this lecture Simon Critchley discusses ritual and religion, sacrifice, cannibalism, Georges Bataille, skepticism, the chorus and Obama in relationship to psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, the discourse of the master, the hysteric and the university, Alain Badiou, Jacques Derrida's "Glas," Wallace Stevens, Samuel Beckett, desire, Hamlet, lamentation, Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary," Henrik Ibsen, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Steiner focusing on Judith Butler, law, Shakespeare, and the city. European Graduate School EGS |
