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Robert Harvey
Distinguished Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1988
241 Harriman Hall
Tel: (631) 632-7580 |
Areas of Specialization: Modern and contemporary literatures in French, critical theory, history of ideas, relations between philosophical and literary discourses. Literature and the arts, film and theory of film, sexuality and literature, terror and surveillance.
Professor Harvey's teaching explores the interpenetrations of literary and philosophical discourse and the relations between art and philosophy. Harvey has written extensively on Jean-François Lyotard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Marguerite Duras, Marcel Duchamp and Michel Deguy. He has translated Lyotard, Deguy, Duras, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Paul Ricœur. His most recent books are Sharing Common Ground: A Space for Ethics (Bloomsbury, 2017) (translations in Japanese and French forthcoming in 2020), a translation of Deguy's To That Which Ends Not: Threnody (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018), Witnessness: Beckett, Levi, Dante and the Foundations of Ethics (Continuum, 2010), which appeared in French as Témoignabilité (MetisPresses, 2015), and De l’exception à la règle (Éditions Lignes, 2006) on USA PATRIOT Act. He is a major co-editor of the Œuvres complètes of Marguerite Duras in the Pléiade edition with Gallimard. From 2001 until 2007, Harvey was a Program Director at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris.
Prof. Harvey is currently completing a book entitled Scare Quotes for MIT Press on "semantic perversion" and, with Kiff Bamford, is under contract for a translation and critical edition of Jean-François Lyotard's Lecture d'enfance ( Readings in Infancy).
Additional information may be found on his official website .
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