Simon CritchleyThinkers

Fundamental ontology is not contemplative but as an engagement of human beings in the world. I is the anthropological preparation for the question of being.

The Philosopher is tasked to remind us of what is passed over in the naivety of what passes for common sense.

Philosophy is a mode of inquiry that reminds us of what is passed over in the naivety of what passes for common sense.

A Thing is that inaccessible thing about which, at best, we can talk. The poet gives us ideas about the thing, not the thing itself.

Trauma is like a bullet that hits me in the dark, fired from an unseen gun and by an unknown assailant. It is, as such, a 'non-intentional affectivity' which tears into my subjectivity.

Trauma is physiological as well as psychical, as easily a blow on the head, a broken arm, or emotional shock or bereavement.