Christopher Fynsk
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Christopher Fynsk (born 1952) is a Professor in the School of Language and Literature at the University of Aberdeen. He is well known for his work relating the political and literary aspects of continental philosophy.
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[edit] Career
Fynsk received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1981. He has taught at Binghamton University and the University of Strasbourg. He was involved in the short-lived Centre for Philosophical Research on the Political, co-directed by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy.
[edit] Interests
Fynsk is interested in the work of Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Paul Celan, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Jean-Luc Nancy, among many others.
[edit] Bibliography
- The Claim of Language: A Case for the Humanities (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
- Infant Figures: The Death of the Infans and Other Scenes of Origin (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000).
- Language and Relation: …that there is language (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996).
- Heidegger: Thought and Historicity (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1986; 2nd edn., 1993).
