The Quarantine Tapes: A week-day program from Onassis LA and dublab. Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, the series chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul Holdengräber calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic.

About Episode 008:
“Freedom is always a freedom in relationship to the necessity of one’s mortality. And there’s not contradiction between those two things, there’s a relation of interdependence. Only in relation to the certainty of your own death than you can actually be free.”

Today on the Quarantine Tapes, Paul sits down with English philosopher and Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research, Simon Critchley, for a rich discussion on the importance of philosophy in this moment, the relationship between fear and anxiety, the decline of imperial power structures, art as catharsis, and much more.

Simon Critchley is an English philosopher and Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research. His books include Very Little…Almost Nothing (1997), Infinitely Demanding (2007), The Book of Dead Philosophers (2009) and The Faith of the Faithless (2012). Recent works include a novella, Memory Theatre, a book-length essay, Notes on Suicide and studies of David Bowie and Football. His most recent book is Tragedy, The Greeks and Us (Pantheon, 2019). He is series moderator of ‘The Stone’, a philosophy column in The New York Times and co-editor of The Stone Reader (2016). He is also 50% of an obscure musical combo called Critchley & Simmons.

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