Simon Critchley

Jan 15, 2025 | lrb.co.uk | Simon Critchley |Patricia Lockwood

Tell me​ your mystic and I will tell you who you are. The Little Flower, she of the astonishing self-love? Hildegard of Bingen, glowing like rock crystal, or Simone Weil, picking herself like a scab? Teresa of Avila, a chilly forehead and a warm thigh, or St Simeon, being written by the tip of his stylus? You may prefer Marguerite Porete, burning alive with her book, or the rich black intersection of St John of the Cross or the pyroclastic whisper of Anonymous, Unknown Author.

Jan 12, 2025 | bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com | Todd May |Simon Critchley |Cody Delistraty |Michael Morris

The forward march of science has its more obvious signals—never-before-seen images of space, for example, or the release of a mind-blowing new tech gadget. But among the most exciting scientific breakthroughs are the ones that reveal who we humans have been all along. So today, we’d like to share the latest and greatest thinking in the world of psychology.

Nov 8, 2024 | thequietus.com | Bobby Barry |Simon Critchley

If mysticism lives on in aesthetic experience, then this comes at the cost of acknowledging that art is utterly marginal to the economic and monetary forces that govern our lives. There is no question of going back to a medieval monastery as a safe haven amidst the darkening age of the world. What is done is done. God is dead or at the very least transmuted into Mammon.

Oct 9, 2024 | citylights.com | Simon Critchley

Aug 5, 2024 | theparisreview.org | Simon Critchley

By Simon Critchley August 5, 2024 I think I am temperamentally a mystic. I feel very drawn to this form of experience and this mode of conceptualizing and, in particular, the deepening and layering of concepts with experience and experience with concepts that can be seen in mystical traditions. Skepticism is not an instinctual or default response for me.