Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror in order to bind citizens to the circuit of their subjection.
The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out. - Simon Critchley
The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.
- Simon Critchley
It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing. - Simon Critchley
It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.
I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He has a phrase which goes somethi… - Simon Critchley
I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He has a phrase which goes somethi…
That is to say, politics is essentially about the management of fear, an economy of fear, continually adjusting the level of fear to produce the righ… - Simon Critchley
That is to say, politics is essentially about the management of fear, an economy of fear, continually adjusting the level of fear to produce the righ…
If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is to say, to live in a form of bondage), then t… - Simon Critchley
If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is to say, to live in a form of bondage), then t…
For me philosophy begins with these experiences of disappointment: a disappointment at the level of what I would think of as "meaning," namely that, … - Simon Critchley
For me philosophy begins with these experiences of disappointment: a disappointment at the level of what I would think of as "meaning," namely that, …
Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so. - Simon Critchley
Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so.
Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the moment of nihilism. Nihilism is the aff… - Simon Critchley
Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the moment of nihilism. Nihilism is the aff…
The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility. - Simon Critchley
The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility.
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