Robert Harvey 

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 Parmi les gisants: penser le cimetière (Presses Universitaires de France), 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, an essay entitled Sharing Common Ground: A Space for Ethics (Bloomsbury, 2017) currently being translated into Japanese, 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), 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.

Forthcoming from Bloomsbury in March 2025 is Harvey’s latest book, The Rhetoric of Manipulation: Unpacking Semantic Perversions (see cover, below).

He is also currently completing a book entitled Semantic Perversions for Bloomsbury Academic.

Additional information may be found on his official website.

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