Keynote lecture at CSS Conference 2022: Nordic humour in the world
August 24, 2022 at Lund university
By Simon Critchley
Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research (New York, USA)
Simon Critchley's work spans over many areas: continental philosophy, philosophy and literature, psychoanalysis, ethics, and political theory, among others. His most recent books include Having Been Born - Tragedy, The Greeks and Us (2020), The Problem with Levinas and Notes on Suicide (both 2015) though he has written on topics as diverse as David Bowie, Derrida, religion, and football. Between 2010 and 2021 he was the moderator of The Stone at The New York Times, where he asked philosophers to weigh in on contemporary issues in art, literature, politics, and popular culture. He is a frequent participant in the intellectual public debate all around the world - in text and on stage as well as in video and audio - and has been ranked as among the 25 Top Influential Philosophers between 2010-2020 by the site AcademicInfluence.com.
He is also a philosopher who has written and thought a lot about humour. In 2002 he published the book On Humour, as part of the Routledge book series "Thinking in action". This book is also the basis for this lecture.
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