“We’re all mad”: Simon Critchley interview

Simon Critchley is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His work engages many areas: Continental philosophy, philosophy and literature, psychoanalysis, ethics, and political theory, among others. His most recent books include The Problem with Levinas (Oxford University Press, 2015) and ABC of Impossibility (2015, University of Minnesota Press, 2015), though he has written on topics as diverse as David Bowie, religion, and suicide. As moderator of The Stone at The New York Times, Critchley asks philosophers to weigh in on contemporary issues in art, literature, politics, and popular culture.

David Goodman is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Advising at the Woods College of Advancing Studies, Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Philosophy at Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College, Director of Psychology and the Other, and a Teaching Associate at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Hospital. He is also a licensed clinical psychologist and has a private practice in Cambridge, MA.
bdavid.goodman@bc.edu

Donna Orange PhD, PsyD, educated in philosophy, clinical psychology and psychoanalysis, teaches at NYU Postdoc. Recent books, all with Routledge, are Thinking for Clinicians (2010), The Suffering Stranger (2011), Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians (2016), and Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics (2017).