Tragedy, the Greeks and Us: Simon Critchley and Shahidha Bari in Conversation
April 8 2019
7pm
At the New School in New York, where Simon Critchley teaches, ‘Critchley on Tragedy’ is one of the most consistently oversubscribed courses. Now, in Tragedy, the Greeks and Us(Profile) he explains, in often surprising ways, why Greek Tragedies remain so compellingly relevant to modern times, in the way they confront us with things about ourselves we don’t want to believe, but are nevertheless true.
Simon Critchley with Shahidha Bari at the LRB