CAVE HILL PHILOSOPHY SYMPOSIUM 2005

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

The Organising Committee is pleased to announce that Professor Simon Critchley of the New School for Social Research in New York and the University of Essex in the UK has accepted our invitation to deliver the keynote address entitled "Infinitely Demanding."

Professor Critchley's areas of expertise include Continental philosophy, phenomenology, philosophy and literature, psychoanalysis, ethics and politics. He is the author of On Humor (2002), Continental Philosophy: a Very Short Introduction (2001), Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas, and Contemporary French Thought (1999), Very Little, Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature (1997, Second Edition 2004), and The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas (1992, Second Edition 1999). He is also the editor of Deconstruction and Pragmatism (1996) and co-editor of Laclau: a Critical Reader (2004), The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (2002), The Blackwell Companion to Continental Philosophy (1998), Deconstructive Subjectivities (1996), and Re-reading Levinas (1991). His latest work, Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens, is scheduled to be published by Routledge in Spring 2005 and he is currently working on a political ethics.