| Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, talking about sovereignty, tyranny, law, tragedy, and the politics of fear. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses Carl Schmitt, the friend distinction, the construction of identity, the Bush administration, the Tea Party and the the terror of French revolution in relationship to Walter Benjamin, Jacob Taubes, Saint Paul, messianic time, Theodor Adorno focusing on Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy," Richard Wagner and Friedrich Hölderlin's "The Death of Empedocles." European Graduate School EGS |
