| Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, talking about tragedy's relation to philosophy. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses Dionysian lethargy, disgust, partial agency, traumatic affect, monstrosity, the sublime, Hamlet, Oedipus and psychoanalysis in relationship to Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Lacan, Kant, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin focusing on lethargy in The Birth of Tragedy, disgust as an aesthetic judgment of taste, the dialectic of action and knowledge, and the double function of monstrosity. European Graduate School EGS |
