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Fran莽ois Raffoul

Retired Professor, Philosophy and French Studies

 

Biography

Fran莽ois Raffoul is an ancien 茅l猫ve of the 脡cole Normale Sup茅rieure of St Cloud/Fontenay, agr茅g茅 de philosophie, and holds a Doctorate in Philosophy from the 脡cole des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences Sociales (Jacques Derrida, advisor). Before joining the Philosophy faculty at 海角社区 in 2000, he taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1988 to 1996. In 2012 he was also named Professor of French Studies with teaching duties in that department. He co-directs the book series Contemporary French Thought for SUNY Press.

 

Areas of Interest

Professor Raffoul specializes in contemporary continental philosophy, on which he has published and lectured extensively, with numerous essays and articles on Martin Heidegger, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Lacan, among others. His research has focused on continental theories of subjectivity, in particular its ethical dimension, exploring the question of responsibility in contemporary continental thought. His reflection on ethics has paid special attention to the phenomenological concept of facticity. He is now pursuing research on the question of the event in contemporary thought.

Courses Offered:

• PHIL 3003 French Existentialism
• PHIL 4003 Contemporary French Philosophy
• PHIL 4952/CPLT 7120 Philosophy of the Event
• PHIL 4954/FREN 4080 The Thought of Jacques Derrida
• PHIL 7903 Philosophy of Responsibility

 

Awards and Honors

• Translation of Juan David Nasio, Oedipus: The Most Crucial Concept in Psychoanalysis (SUNY Press) named by Choice: Reviews Online as one of the "Outstanding Academic Titles" for 2011
• 海角社区 鈥淩ainmaker,鈥� one of 100 top faculty at 海角社区, 2008
• ATLAS research grant ($35,000), 2006-2007
• Manship Summer Research Fellowship, 海角社区, 2001, 2012, 2020

 

Selected Publications

Books Authored

• Thinking the Event. Indiana University Press, 2020. 363 pp
• The Origins of Responsibility. Indiana University Press, 2010. 328 pp
• A chaque fois mien. Paris, France: Galil茅e, 2004. 267 pp
• Heidegger and the Subject. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1999. 320 pp

Books Edited

• The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger, Co-editor with Eric S. Nelson. Bloomsbury, 2013
• French Interpretations of Heidegger: An Exceptional Reception. Co-editor with David Pettigrew. SUNY Press, 2008. 300 pp
• Rethinking Facticity. Co-editor with Eric Nelson. SUNY Press, 2008. 383 pp
• Heidegger and Practical Philosophy. Co-editor with David Pettigrew. SUNY Press, 2002. 367 pp
• Disseminating Lacan. Co-editor with David Pettigrew. SUNY Press, 1996. 392 pp

Books Translated

• Dominique Janicaud. Heidegger in France. Translation, introduction, and notes. With David Pettigrew. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, October 2015.
• Jean-Luc Nancy. Identity. Translation and notes. Fordham University Press. 
• Jacques Derrida. Ulysse Gramophone in "Derrida and Joyce: Texts and Contexts." eds. Andrew Mitchell and A. Slote (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2013)
• Juan-David Nasio. Oedipus: The Most Crucial Concept in Psychoanalysis. Translation, introduction and notes. With David Pettigrew. SUNY Press, 2010. 229 pp. (French)
• Jean-Luc Nancy. The Creation of the World or Globalization. Translation, introduction and notes. With David Pettigrew. SUNY Press, 2007. 129 pp.
• Martin Heidegger. Four Seminars. Translation, introduction, and notes. With Andrew Mitchell. Indiana University Press, 2003. 118 pp.
• Juan-David Nasio. The Book of Love and Pain: Thinking at the Limit with Freud and Lacan. Translation, introduction and notes. With David Pettigrew. SUNY Press, 2003. 143 pp.
• Juan-David Nasio. Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytical Theory of Jacques Lacan. Translation, introduction and notes. With David Pettigrew. SUNY Press, 1998. 158 pp.
• Fran莽oise Dastur. Heidegger and the Question of Time. Translation, introduction and notes. With David Pettigrew. Prometheus, 1998. 79 pp.
• Jean-Luc Nancy. The Gravity of Thought. Translation, introduction and notes. With Gregory Recco. With Translator's Preface. Prometheus, 1998. 92 pp.
• Ph. Lacoue-Labarthe and J. L. Nancy. The Title of the Letter: a Reading of Lacan. Translation, introduction and notes. With David Pettigrew. SUNY Press, 1992. 151 pp.

Selected Articles

• 鈥淐hez lui chez  l鈥檃utre.鈥� Invited article for a special issue of Les Temps Modernes on the thought of Jacques Derrida (2011).
• 鈥淭he Aporia of History.鈥� Invited article for a special issue of the journal POLIGRAFI on the theme of 鈥淣atural History鈥� (2011).
• 鈥淭he Event of Space.鈥� In Gatherings, Annual Journal of the Heidegger Circle (2011).
• 鈥淭he Coexistence of the World, or The Intertwining of Singularities.鈥� The Yearbook of Comparative Literature (Jan 2011).
• 鈥淒errida and the Ethics of the Im-possible.鈥� Research in Phenomenology 38 (Spring 2008): 270-90.
• 鈥淒errida et l鈥櫭﹖hique de l鈥檌mpossible.鈥�Revue de M茅taphysique et de Morale, special issue on the thought of Jacques Derrida, (Spring 2007): 73-88.
• 鈥淩ethinking Selfhood: From Ereignis.鈥� Research in Phenomenology 37 (2007): 75-94.
• "The Logic of the With: On Nancy鈥檚 Etre Singulier Pluriel.鈥� Studies in Practical Philosophy 1.1 (Spring 1999): 36-52.
• 鈥淥n Hospitality, Between Ethics and Politics: Reading Derrida's Adieu 脿 Emmanuel Levinas.鈥� Research in Phenomenology 28 (1998): 274-83.
• 鈥淭he Subject of the Welcome.鈥� Symposium  (Journal of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy) 2.2 (Fall 1998): 211-22.
• 鈥淩esponsabilit茅 et Alt茅rit茅 chez Heidegger et L茅vinas.鈥� Symposium (Journal of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy) 1.1 (1997): 49-64.
• 鈥淗eidegger and Kant: The Question of Idealism.鈥� Philosophy Today (De Paul University) 40.4/4 (Winter 1996): 531-47.
• 鈥淥therness and Individuation in Heidegger.鈥� Man and World (Kluwer) 28.4 (Oct 1995): 341-58

Essays

• 鈥淭he Question of Responsibility between Levinas and Heidegger.鈥� In Between Levinas and Heidegger. Edited by Eric Sean Nelson and John Drabinski. SUNY Press, under contract.
• 鈥淭he Self-Deconstruction of Christianity.鈥� In Re-treating Religion: Deconstructing Christianity with Jean-Luc Nancy. Edited by Ignaas Devish. Fordham University Press, forthcoming.
• 鈥淭he Categorical Imperative of Being.鈥� In Jean-Luc Nancy: Justice, Legality and World. Edited by Benjamin Hutchens. Continuum, forthcoming.
• 鈥淒errida and Responsibility.鈥� In Blackwell Companion to Derrida. Edited by Len Lawlor. Blackwell, forthcoming.
• 鈥淎ppropriations and Expropriations of Responsibility.鈥� In Heidegger in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Paul Ennis and Tziovanis Georgakis. Springer, forthcoming.
• 鈥淟a cr茅ation du monde鈥� In Jean-Luc Nancy: Figures du Dehors. Paris, France: PUF, forthcoming.
• 鈥淭he Creation of the World.鈥� In Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking: Expositions of World, Politics, Art and Sense. Edited by Marie-Eve Morin and Peter Gratton. SUNY Press, 2011.
• 鈥淭he French Reception of Heidegger.鈥� Editor鈥檚 introduction. Pages 1-22 in French Interpretations of Heidegger. Edited by D. Pettigrew and F. Raffoul. SUNY Press, 2008.
• 鈥淭he Question of Facticity in Contemporary Continental Thought.鈥� Editor鈥檚 introduction. Pages 1-22 inRethinking Facticity. Edited by F. Raffoul and E. Nelson. SUNY Press, 2008.
• 鈥淔actical Life and the Need for Philosophy.鈥� Pages 69-85 in Rethinking Facticity. Edited by F. Raffoul and E. Nelson. SUNY Press, 2008.
• 鈥淗eidegger and Ethics.鈥� Pages 501-523 in Phenomenology 2005: Selected Essays From North America Part 2. Edited by Lester Embree and Thomas Nenon. Zeta Books, 2007.
• 鈥淛ean-Luc Nancy, World, Justice and Globalization.鈥� Translator鈥檚 introduction. Pages 1-26 in Jean-Luc Nancy, The Creation of the World or Globalization. SUNY Press, 2007.
• 鈥淟'锚tre et l'autre: sur la lecture l茅vinassienne de Heidegger.鈥� Pages 93-110 in Heidegger: Le danger et la promesse. Edited by G茅rard Bensussan and Joseph Cohen. Paris: Kim茅, 2006.
• 鈥淏eing and the Other: Ethics and Ontology in Heidegger and Levinas.鈥� Pages 138-51 in Addressing Levinas. Edited by Eric Sean Nelson, Antje Kapust, and Kent Still. Northwestern University Press, 2005.
• 鈥淟e Rien du monde.鈥� Pages 131-44 in Lieux Propices: L鈥櫭﹏onciation des lieux/Le lieu de l鈥櫭﹏onciation dans les contextes francophones interculturels. Edited by Adelaide Russo and Simon Harel. Les Presses de l鈥橴niversit茅 Laval, 2005.
• 鈥淟a pens茅e 茅thique de Fran莽oise Dastur.鈥� Pages 241-55 in La Philosophie de Fran莽oise Dastur. Le Cercle Herm茅neutique 3-4. Paris: Vrin, 2005.
• 鈥淗eidegger and the Origins of Responsibility.鈥� Pages 205-218 in Heidegger and Practical Philosophy. Edited by Fran莽ois Raffoul and David Pettigrew. SUNY Press, 2002.
• 鈥淟acan and the Event of the Subject.鈥� Pages 63-82 in Continental Philosophy-VI. New York and London: Routledge, 1997.

Review Articles

• 鈥淥penness and Thought: The Liminal Interrogations of David Wood.鈥� Review article of David Wood'sThinking After Heidegger. Research in Phenomenology 34 (Fall 2004): 269-79.
• 鈥淭he Untold Story of Heidegger in France.鈥� Review article of Dominique Janicaud's Heidegger en France. Research in Phenomenology 33 (2003): 299-305.

Dictionary Entries

• 鈥淒asein鈥� (3500 words), 鈥淓thics鈥� (3500 words), 鈥淒errida鈥� (3500 words). In Heidegger Companion. Edited by Fran莽ois Raffoul and Eric S. Nelson. Continuum Press, under contract.
• "Ethics" (6316 words). Pages 559-69 in The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies. Edited by Constantin V. Boundas. Edinburgh University Press, 2007. Also published as The Columbia Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies. Columbia University Press, 2007.
• "Subject" (1000 words), "Dasein" (250 words), "Jean-Luc Nancy,鈥� (500 words) "Ethics" (1000 words). In The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy. Edinburgh University Press, 2006.