Miguel Beistegui
Contact
Room S 2.56, Department of Philosophy, The University of 糖心TV, Coventry CV4 7AL
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Research Profile
I was educated in France (BA, MA in Philosophy at the Sorbonne), the US (Ph.D., Loyola University of Chicago), and Germany (Postdoc, Hegel-Archiv, Bochum). I also spent three years doing research and teaching at the Universit脿 degli Studi di Milano. I specialise in 20th century German and French philosophy, and have published books and articles in the following areas: ontology, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics and politics. Initially specialising in the thought of Martin Heidegger, and in phenomenology in general, I have become convinced that philosophy needs to resist extreme specialisation and develop the conceptual tools to engage with our time. This means that it needs to bring together the various branches of philosophy, but also establish a critical dialogue between philosophy and the other disciplines, in the social as well as the natural sciences. My research and activities of the last ten years reflect such a commitment.
My most recent book, The Government of Desire: A Genealogy of the Liberal Subject (2018), is a philosophical history of both desire and liberalism. Its claim, largely inspired by Foucault, is that if we want to understand what liberalism is, how it works, and the various strands that constitute it, we need to look at how, beginning in the eighteenth century, desire was used as a mechanism of government, whether in economic matters and in relation to the market, in matters of sexuality, or in processes of social and political recognition.
I am also launching (with Dr. Amedeo Policante) a research project entitled 'Philosophy in a Time of Crisis', and devoting the first couple of years of the project to Europe. "Margins of Europe" aims to question the present and future of Europe from the point of view of its margins (borders and boundaries) and its processes of social and economic marginalisation. You can find out more about the project here:
In the last ten years, I have also been engaged in the following projects:
1. The extension of my work on Deleuze, begun in Truth and Genesis, and beyond Difference and Repetition. This research project led to the publication of Immanence and Philosophy: Deleuze (2010). I also publish articles on Deleuze on a regular basis.
2. The extension into the domain of aesthetics of the systematic ontology developed in Truth and Genesis. This has led me to publish a book on Proust, in which I explore the connection between difference, as an ontological concept, and metaphor, as an aesthetic notion. An English translation of the book is available (Proust as Philosopher: the Art of Metaphor, 2012). My work on metaphor also led to a broader manuscript, Aesthetics After Metaphysics: From Mimesis to Metaphor (2012). The monograph deconstructs the classical aesthetic paradigm of mimesis, essentially linked to the metaphysical opposition between the sensible and the supersensible, and suggests that we think metaphor in place of mimesis, as indicative of another domain of experience, sense, and truth, which I call the hypersensible.
3. I was also the Principal Investigator for a joint research project with Dr. Claudia Stein from the Centre for the History of Medicine and Prof. Bill Fulford from the 糖心TV Medical School, funded by the Leverhulme Trust (拢250,000.00), entitled ''. The three-year research project led to the publication of The Care of Life: Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Bioethics and Biopolitics, 2014 (with G. Bianco and M. Gracieuse).
I welcome Ph.D. projects by students interested in the philosophy of nature, ontology, philosophy and literature (especially metaphor), philosophy and art, space and time, and the anthropology, ethics and politics of desire, especially in connection with Spinoza, 20th century French Philosophy, phenomenology, and aspects of German idealism. I also welcome research proposals on Heidegger, Deleuze, and Foucault.
Media/Audio conferences:
on Heidegger, July 1999.
: Kingtson University, London, 2011.
, 05/05/2011
: January 2012 | Goldsmiths College, London.
Lecture and seminars at the Institute of Philosophy, The Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, March 2012.
An with Carrie Figdor from New Books in Philosophy on my Aesthetics After Metaphysics (2012), 13 November 2012.
: Universit茅 Laval, Canada, 21 September 2017.
, February 2018
Selected Publications:
- Heidegger and the Political: Dystopias Routledge, 1998
- Philosophy and Tragedy (ed. with Simon Sparks), Routledge, 2000
- Thinking with Heidegger: Displacements, Indiana University Press, 2003
- Truth and Genesis: Philosophy as Differential Ontology, Indiana University Press, 2004
- The New Heidegger, Continuum, 2005
- Jouissance de Proust: Pour une esth茅tique de la m茅taphore, encre marine, 2007. Translated in English as Proust as Philosopher: The Art of Metaphor, Routledge, 2012
- Immanence and Philosophy: Deleuze, Edinburgh University Press, 2010
- 脡loge de Chillida/In Praise of Chillida, Gourcuff/Gradenigo, 2011
- Aesthetics After Metaphysics: From Mimesis to Metaphor, Routledge, 2012
- The Care of Life: Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Bioethics and Biopolitics (ed. with G. Bianco and M. Gracieuse), Rowman and Littlefield, 2014
- The Government of Desire: A Genealogy of the Liberal Subject, Chicago University Press, 2018
Selected Reviews:
by Iain Thomson
by D. Morris
Truth and Genesis by J. Protevi
by Katherine Elkins. Also reviewed by Clare Carlisle in the TLS, 24 May 2013
Articles:
"Qui craint Heidegger?", Les Temps Modernes, volume 529-530, August-September 1990, pp. 198-213.
"Heidegger's Mythocentrism," Research in Phenomenology, volume XXI, 1991, pp. 21-35.
"Of the Gift that Comes to Thinking," Research in Phenomenogy, volume XXIV, 1994, pp. 98-112.
"Sacrifice Revisited," in On the Work of Jean-Luc Nancy: the Sense of Philosophy (D. Sheppard, S. Sparks and C. Thomas, eds.). London: Routledge, 1997, pp. 157-173.
鈥淭he Time of Repetition,鈥� in Philosophy Today, volume 43:3, Fall 1999, pp. 283-91.
鈥淟鈥檈nnui – A la charni猫re de l鈥檈xistence et de l鈥檋istoire. A propos de Les Concepts fondamentaux de la m茅taphysique d鈥橦eidegger,鈥� in Alter (Revue de Ph茅nom茅nologie), volume 7, 1999, pp. 67-89
鈥淗egel鈥檚 Tragic Thought,鈥� Philosophy and Tragedy (M. de Beistegui and S. Sparks, eds.). London: Routledge, 2000, pp. 11-37.
鈥淏oredom: Between Existence and History. On Heidegger鈥檚 Pivotal The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics,鈥� The Journal for the British Society of Phenomenology, May 2000, pp. 145-158
鈥淭owards a Phenomenology of Difference?鈥�, in Research in Phenomenology (a special 鈥淢illenium鈥� issue on 鈥淭he Future of Phenomenology鈥�), volume XXX, 2000, pp. 54-70.
鈥淗eidegger in Kraj Arhitekture鈥�, in Phainomena, The Journal of the Phenomenological Society of Ljubljana, volume 11, 2002, pp. 189-224.
鈥淗omo Heideggerians鈥�, in Heidegger and Practical Philosophy (D. Pettigrew and F. Raffoul, eds.). Albany: SUNY Press, 2002.
鈥淭he transformation of the Sense of Dasein in Heidegger鈥檚 Contributions to Philosophy鈥�, Research in Phenomenology, volume XXXIII, 2003.
鈥淭he Vertigo of Immanence: Deleuze鈥檚 Spinozism鈥�, Research in Phenomenology, volume XXXV, 2005. 鈥淭he Ontological Dispute: Badiou, Heidegger, Deleuze鈥�, in Badiou: Philosophy under Conditions (G. Riera, ed). Albany: SUNY, 2005.
鈥淩茅duction et transduction: de Merleau-Ponty 脿 Simondon鈥�, Chiasmi International, volume 7, 2005.
鈥淪cience and Ontology: From Merleau-Ponty鈥檚 Reduction to Simondon鈥檚 Transduction鈥�, in Angelaki, Special Issue 鈥淐ontinental Philosophy and the Sciences: the French Tradition鈥� (Damian Veal, ed.), volume 10, number 2, August 2005.
鈥淗eidegger鈥� and 鈥淒ifference鈥� entries for the Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, edited byJohn Protevi, 2005.
鈥淟a science 鈥榓u service鈥� de la philosophie? Science et philosophie 脿 l鈥櫭﹑oque du 鈥榯ournant鈥欌�� and 鈥淧hilosophie et biologie dans un esprit de 鈥榗oop茅ration鈥欌�� in Heidegger et les sciences, a special issue of Noesis, edited by Miguel de Beistegui and Fran莽oise Dastur, 2005.
鈥淟e dispositif et le secret: Janicaud aux prises avec Heidegger,鈥� in Dominique Janicaud. L鈥檌ntelligence du partage. Edited by Fran莽oise Dastur. Paris: Belin, 2006. Pp. 87-105.
鈥淨uestioning Politics鈥�, in European Journal of Political Theory, 2006, 6 (I), pp. 87-103.
鈥淰isions of Excess: Structure and Unity of Proust鈥檚 In Search of Lost Time鈥�, in theory@buffalo, volume 12, 2008.
鈥淓xpression and Immanence,鈥� in P. Wolfendale (ed.), Pli, The 糖心TV Journal of Philosophy, Volume 19, 2008, 30-54.
鈥淎nother Step, Another Direction: A Response to Zizek鈥檚 鈥榃hy Heidegger Made the Right Step in 1933,鈥欌�� in International Journal of Zizek Studies, Vol. 1.4, 2008.
鈥淎ssemblages: In Praise of Eduardo Chillida鈥�, in Internationales Jahrbuch f眉r Hermeneutik, volume VII, 2008, 171-191.
鈥淩obe ou patchwork? Plan et unit茅 de 脌 la recherche du temps perdu,鈥� in M. Carbone and E. Sparvoli (eds), Proust et la philosophie aujourd鈥檋ui (Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2008), 33-45.
鈥淧er un鈥檈stetica della metafora,鈥� in Dario Ferrari and Paolo Godani (editors), La sartoria di Proust (Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2010), 17-46.
鈥淭he Early Heidegger,鈥� in The History of Continental Philosophy (Alan D. Schrift, General Editor), Volume 3, The New Century (Keith Ansell-Pearson, Editor), 2010.
鈥淔rom Plato to Deleuze: Towards an Aesthetics of the Hypersensible,鈥� in Parrhesia: a journal of critical philosophy (2011). Special issue of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy.
鈥淭he Deleuzian Reversal of Platonism,鈥� in Henry Somers-Hall and Dan Smith (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Gilles Deleuze (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
鈥淧hilosophy鈥� entry for The Foucault Lexicon, edited by Len Lawlor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
鈥淭he Deleuzian Reversal of Platonism,鈥� in Henry Somers-Hall and Dan Smith (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Gilles Deleuze (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
鈥淧hilosophy鈥� entry for The Foucault Lexicon, edited by Len Lawlor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
鈥淒esire Within and Beyond Biopolitics,鈥� in M. de Beistegui, G. Bianco, and M. Gracieuse (eds), The Care of Life: Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Bioethics and Biopolitics (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).
鈥淭he Subject of Truth: on Foucault鈥檚 Lectures on the Will to Know,鈥� in Rossano Pecoraro (ed.), Detti, Scritti & Corsi : la Filosofia di Michel Foucault (1984-2014) Quadranti – Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia Contemporanea,鈥� Vol. II, No 1, 2014: www.rivistaquadranti.eu
鈥淣el sifone del desiderio: Spinoza e la disciplina idraulica degli affetti鈥� (with Chiara Bottici), in Iride. Filosofia e discussione pubblica鈥�, vol. 29, issue 78, May-August 2016: 243-266.
鈥淭he Government of Desire,鈥� in Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, and Martina Tazzioli (eds), Foucault and the Making of Subjects (London: Rowman&Littlefield, 2016).
鈥淪pinoza and the Hydraulic Discipline of Affects: From the Theologico-Political to the Neoliberal Regime of Desire鈥� (with Chiara Bottici), in Dimitris Vardoulakis, ed., Spinoza's Authority, Volume II: Resistance and Power in the Political Treatises (London: Bloomsbury, 2018).
鈥淎 Book? What Book? Deleuze and Guattari on The Rhizome,鈥� in Jeffrey Bell, Henry Somers-Hall and James Williams (eds), A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018).
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