| Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, talking about tragedy, moral ambiguity, the city-state, ritual, the relationship between the dead and the living, temporal disjunction between the past and present, Antigone, Hegel, ghosts, power and gender trouble. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses Socrates, Plato, Oedipus, Hamlet, the spectacle, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet focusing on law, myth, and theater. European Graduate School EGS |