Two years after Jean Améry’s On Suicide was published in 1976, the author took an overdose of sleeping pills. He was 65. In 1960, some eighteen years after Albert Camus had raised and – so he thought – resolved the question of suicide in The Myth of Sisyphus, he was killed in a car accident.…
Simon Critchley Interviewed by Qalandar Bux Memon and Asif Akhtar
(Portrait by Luca Del Baldo)
Part One
(Interview conducted June 2011)
Part One: The Role of Philosophers, Violence and Resistance, and Humour.
QM - You have claimed that the role and responsibility of the philosopher is, in part, ‘the production of crisis’. Firstly, could you unpack…