Robert Harvey
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Philosophy
Education: Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1988
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 research 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 The Rhetoric of Manipulation: Unmasking Semantic Perversions (Bloomsbury, 2025), Parmi les gisants: penser le cimetière (Presses Universitaires de France, 2024), a reflection on how and why we memorialize the dead, Readings in Infancy (Bloomsbury, 2023), a translation and critical edition of Lyotard’s Lecture d’enfance, and an essay entitled Sharing Common Ground: A Space for Ethics (Bloomsbury, 2017).
He just completed a manuscript in French entitled Mormosionisme: Une histoire si “américaine”.
From 2001 until 2007, Harvey was a Program Director at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris.
His most recent books are The Rhetoric of Manipulation: Unmasking Semantic Perversions (Bloomsbury, 2025), Parmi les gisants: penser le cimetière (Presses Universitaires de France, 2024), a reflection on how and why we memorialize the dead, Readings in Infancy (Bloomsbury, 2023), a translation and critical edition of Lyotard’s Lecture d’enfance, and an essay entitled Sharing Common Ground: A Space for Ethics (Bloomsbury, 2017).
He just completed a manuscript in French entitled Mormosionisme: Une histoire si “américaine”.
From 2001 until 2007, Harvey was a Program Director at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris.
To learn more about Professor Harvey, please visit his website.