Deconstructive Subjectivities

by Simon Critchley (editor), Peter Dews (Editor)

Explores the meanings of subjectivity in continental philosophy in the wake of post-structuralism and critical theory.

257 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Simon Critchley (born 27 February 1960 in Hertfordshire) is an English philosopher currently teaching at The New School. He works in continental philosophy. Critchley argues that philosophy commences in disappointment, either religious or political. These two axes may be said largely to inform his published work: religious disappointment raises the question of meaning and has to, as he sees it, deal with the problem of nihilism; political disappointment provokes the question of justice and raises the need for a coherent ethics [...]