François Raffoul
He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and French Studies as well as former Chair of the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Louisiana State University. An ancien élève of the École Normale Supérieure of St Cloud/Fontenay, agrégé de philosophie, he holds a Doctorate in Philosophy from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Jacques Derrida, advisor).
His books:
- Heidegger and the Subject (Prometheus Books, 1999),
- A Chaque fois Mien (Galilée, Paris, 2004),
- The Origins of Responsibility (Indiana University Press, 2010),
- Thinking the Event (Indiana Uni. Press, 2010).
Co-editor of several volumes:
- Disseminating Lacan (1996),
- Heidegger and Practical Philosophy (2002),
- Rethinking Facticity (2008),
- French Interpretations of Heidegger (2008),
- The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger (Bloomsbury, 2013, 2016).
Co-translated several French philosophers:
- Dominique Janicaud: Heidegger in France (Indiana Uni. Press, 2015),
- Jacques Derrida (“Ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes in Joyce”, in Derrida and Joyce: Texts and Contexts, SUNY Press, 2013),
- Jean-Luc Nancy (The Title of the Letter: a Reading of Lacan, 1992; The Gravity of Thought, 1998; The Creation of the World or Globalization, 2007; and Identity, 2014).
Co-editor of the book series:
- “Contemporary French Thought” with SUNY Press.
Website: https://www.lsu.edu/hss/prs/people/retired-fac/raffoul.php