Contemporary European Thought Research Group
Dr Chris Watkin
Position(s): Temporary Lecturer, Department of French. Murray Edwards College
Email: cmw36@cam.ac.uk
Research description
Christopher Watkin specializes in twentieth-century and contemporary French literature and philosophy. He has recently published Phenomenology or Deconstruction (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), and his current work deals with the theme of atheism in contemporary French thought, with particular reference to the works of Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux and Jean-Luc Nancy, to appear as Difficult Atheism (Edinburgh University Press, 2011). He is part of the Contemporary European Thought Research Group, and is helping to develop its current focus on the notion of equality.
Dr Martin Crowley
Position(s): University Senior Lecturer, Department of French. Queens' College
Email: mpvc2@cam.ac.uk
Research description
Martin Crowley works on modern and contemporary thought and culture. His current research examines accounts of the visual and plastic arts in the work of modern French thinkers. He is the author of: L'Homme sans: Politiques de la finitude (Lignes, 2009); with an afterword by Jean-Luc Nancy); The New Pornographies: Explicit Sex in Recent French Fiction and Film (co-authored with Victoria Best; Manchester University Press, 2007); Robert Antelme: L'humanité irréductible (Lignes/Éditions Léo Scheer, 2004); Robert Antelme: Humanity, Community, Testimony (Legenda, 2003), and Duras, Writing, and the Ethical, Making the Broken Whole (OUP, 2000); and the editor of Contact! The Art of Touch/L'Art du toucher (L'Esprit Créateur, Fall 2007), and Dying Words: The Last Moments of Writers and Philosophers (Rodopi, 2000).
Dr Ian James
Position(s): University Lecturer, Department of French. Downing College
Email: irj20@cam.ac.uk
Research description
Ian James specialises in twentieth-century and contemporary French literature and philosophy. He is the author of Pierre Klossowski: The Persistence of a Name (Oxford Legenda, 2000), The Fragmentary Demand: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy (Stanford University Press, 2006) and Paul Virilio (Routledge, 2007). He is also co-editor of Whispers of the Flesh: Essays in Memory of Pierre Klossowski (Diacritics, Spring 2005) and Exposures: Critical Essays on Jean-Luc Nancy (Oxford Literary Review, vol. 27, 2005). He is currently working on a project which examines the way in which the question of technology has been taken up in recent French philosophy.- © 2010 University of Cambridge
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