Simon Critchley

5.3k total citations
104 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Simon Critchley is a scholar working on Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Critchley has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Philosophy, 25 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 14 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Simon Critchley's work include Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (33 papers), Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics (10 papers) and Critical Theory and Philosophy (10 papers). Simon Critchley is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (33 papers), Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics (10 papers) and Critical Theory and Philosophy (10 papers). Simon Critchley collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. Simon Critchley's co-authors include Robert Bernasconi, Adriaan T. Peperzak, Emmanuel Lévinas, Ernesto Laclau, Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty, Sverre Spoelstra, Axel Honneth, Bent Meier Sørensen and H. Hopfl and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Organization and The Modern Language Review.

In The Last Decade

Simon Critchley

81 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simon Critchley United Kingdom 18 968 754 305 279 223 104 2.0k
G. W. F. Hegel 11 748 0.8× 921 1.2× 466 1.5× 167 0.6× 119 0.5× 32 1.9k
Jean Paul Sartre 18 584 0.6× 710 0.9× 270 0.9× 282 1.0× 157 0.7× 120 2.2k
Toril Moi United States 19 419 0.4× 770 1.0× 218 0.7× 668 2.4× 90 0.4× 75 2.3k
Alain Badiou France 23 617 0.6× 1.0k 1.4× 386 1.3× 302 1.1× 74 0.3× 186 2.2k
Walter Kaufmann United States 19 804 0.8× 539 0.7× 192 0.6× 226 0.8× 110 0.5× 92 1.9k
Nancy S. Struever United States 9 381 0.4× 547 0.7× 243 0.8× 180 0.6× 101 0.5× 40 1.6k
Hélène Cixous France 16 449 0.5× 667 0.9× 183 0.6× 878 3.1× 98 0.4× 123 2.4k
Hazel E. Barnes South Africa 9 461 0.5× 522 0.7× 131 0.4× 184 0.7× 196 0.9× 45 1.7k
Rachel Bowlby United Kingdom 13 246 0.3× 593 0.8× 199 0.7× 253 0.9× 63 0.3× 54 1.4k
Raymond Geuss United Kingdom 16 620 0.6× 828 1.1× 817 2.7× 88 0.3× 82 0.4× 64 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Critchley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Critchley

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Simon Critchley. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Simon Critchley based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Simon Critchley. Simon Critchley is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Critchley, Simon. (2015). The Problem with Levinas. Oxford University Press eBooks. 14 indexed citations
2.
Critchley, Simon. (2014). The Ethics of Deconstruction. Edinburgh University Press eBooks. 31 indexed citations
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Critchley, Simon. (2014). Levinas and Hitlerism. Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal. 35(1). 223–249.
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Critchley, Simon, et al.. (2013). The Hamlet doctrine. UKnowledge (University of Kentucky). 4 indexed citations
5.
Critchley, Simon. (2012). Back to the Great Outdoors. TLS, the Times literary supplement/Times literary supplement on CD-ROM/TLS. Times literary supplement. 28–29. 1 indexed citations
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Critchley, Simon. (2012). The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology. Research portal (Tilburg University). 47 indexed citations
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Sternberg, Esther, et al.. (2011). A self‐fulfilling prophecy: linking belief to behavior. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1234(1). 83–97. 6 indexed citations
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Critchley, Simon & Carl Cederström. (2010). How to stop living and start worrying: Conversations with Carl Cederström. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 3 indexed citations
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Critchley, Simon. (2009). Infinitely demanding anarchism. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 2. 3–22. 1 indexed citations
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Critchley, Simon, et al.. (2009). Of Poets and Thinkers: A Conversation on Philosophy, Literature and the Rebuilding of the World. The European Legacy. 14(5). 519–534.
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Badiou, Alain & Simon Critchley. (2007). Ours Is Not a Terrible Situation. Philosophy Today. 51(3). 357–365. 5 indexed citations
12.
Critchley, Simon. (2005). Poetry as philosophy - on Wallace Stevens. European Journal of American Culture. 24(3). 179–190. 1 indexed citations
13.
Critchley, Simon. (2002). Ethics, Politics and Radical Democracy - The History of a Disagreement. 4. 13 indexed citations
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Critchley, Simon, et al.. (2002). The Cambridge Companion to Levinas. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 159 indexed citations
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Critchley, Simon. (2000). Demanding Approval: On the Ethics of Alain Badiou. Radical philosophy. 100. 9 indexed citations
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Lévinas, Emmanuel, et al.. (1998). Emmanuel Levinas. Altérité et Responsabilité. Guide de lecture. Cerf eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Critchley, Simon & Chantal Mouffe. (1998). Desconstrucción y pragmatismo. 5 indexed citations
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Critchley, Simon & Axel Honneth. (1998). Philosophy in Germany. 13 indexed citations
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Critchley, Simon. (1994). The deconstruction of actuality: an interview with Jacques Derrida. Radical philosophy. 68. 4 indexed citations
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Bernstein, Jeffrey, et al.. (1989). HGL number 19 Cover and Front matter. 10(1). f1–f4. 1 indexed citations

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