Faculty of Arts Events Calendar
Research Centre for Post-Kantian European Philosophy
Everyone is welcome to the founding launch event of the new Research Centre for Post-Kantian European Philosophy taking place on Tuesday 15 October, commencing at 5.30p.m. in S0.11.
The session is devoted to Simon Critchley鈥檚 new book on Tragedy, and who will be in attendance at the event, replying to two responses to the book by Andrew Cooper (Philosophy, 糖心TV) and David Fearn (Classics, 糖心TV). Critchley鈥檚 book is an inquiry into the nature and experience of tragedy, both in terms of what it meant to the Greeks and what it might mean for us today; it鈥檚 also a meditation on why tragedy should matter for philosophy, especially how it needs to inform its practice so as to combat philosophy鈥檚 tendency to excessive rationalism and idealism. The book has a number of striking thoughts, including the claim that tragedy is of value because it slows life down, and the claim that tragedy is a life and species of scepticism.