Category Archives: Critchley

Towards a Post-Deconstructive Subject? Not So Fast!

The argument in favor of eliminating the subject entirely is a compelling one. Especially when you follow through the problems of coming to a reliant and favorable version of a subject that meets the following criteria: 1. Post-metaphysical. Both Heidegger … Continue reading

Fulfilling the Traumatic Demand: Review of Critchley’s Ethics

Simon Critchley’s text on ethics and politics, Infinitely Demanding addresses the drift of nihilism that has overcome our contemporary conception of the political. Nihilism in this case is how we experience our societies as externally compulsory, but not internally compelling. … Continue reading