Dr.  John  Protevi 

Taylor Professor  - French Studies

Bachelor's Degree(s): The Pennsylvania State University BA, Philosophy

Master's Degree: The Pennsylvania State University MA, Philosophy The Pennsylvania State University MA, English

PhD: Loyola University of Chicago PhD, Philosophy

Phone: (225) 578-6664

E-mail: protevi@lsu.edu

Office: 408 Hodges Hall

 

Area of Interest

Contemporary French philosophy (Foucault, Deleuze); the biological, cognitive, and affective studies

Awards & Honors

LSU College of Arts & Sciences Manship Summer Research Grant, July 2009

LSU Tiger Athletic Foundation Faculty Teaching Award, May 2009

LSU Council on Research Summer Research Stipend, July 2004

Program Enrichment Fund Award, American Association of Geographers, March 2003

French Government Scholarship (via CODOFIL), Centre de Linguistique Appliquée, Université de Franche-Comté,
Besançon, France, July 1999

Leverhulme Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick (UK), 1995-96

NEH Summer Seminar, "What is Enlightenment?” Boston University, 1991

Selected Publications

Books

Political Affect: Connecting  the Social and the Somatic. University of Minnesota Press, 2009.  

Deleuze and Geophilosophy: A Guide and Glossary. With Mark Bonta. Edinburgh University Press, 2004

Political Physics: Deleuze, Derrida and the Body Politic. London: Athlone Press, 2001

Time and Exteriority: Aristotle, Heidegger, Derrida. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1994

Edited Books

Editor, Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, 2005.
North American edition, A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, Yale University Press, 2006.

Co-editor (with Paul Patton), Between Derrida and Deleuze. Continuum, 2003.

Section Editor, "Post-Structuralism."  Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, 1999.  (Includes extensive introductory essay.)

Journal Articles, Book Chapters, Reference Works

“One More ‘Next Step’: Deleuze and Brain, Body, and Affect in Contemporary Cognitive Science,” in Laura Guillaume and Ian Buchanan, eds., Deleuze and the Body. Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming.

“Rhythm and Cadence, Frenzy and March: Music and the geo-bio-techno-affective assemblages of ancient warfare.” Theory & Event, special issue on Deleuze and War, ed. Brad Evans. Forthcoming.

“What does Foucault think is new about neo-liberalism?” Pli: Warwick Journal of Philosophy, vol. 21. Forthcoming.

“Ontology, Biology, and History of Affect,” in Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek and Graham Harman, eds. The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism. Re.Press. Forthcoming.

“The Terri Schiavo Case: Biopolitics, Biopower, and Privacy as Singularity,” in Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook, and Patrick Hanafin, eds., Deleuze and Law: Forensic Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

“Philosophy of Consciousness and the Body,” in John Mullarkey and Beth Lord, eds. Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy. London: Continuum, 2009.

“Beyond Autopoiesis: Inflections of Emergence and Politics in the Work of Francisco Varela,” in Bruce Clarke and Mark Hansen, eds. Emergence and Embodiment: Essays in Neocybernetics. Duke University Press, 2009.

“Geohistory and Hydro-bio-politics,” in Jeffrey Bell and Claire Colebrook, eds. Deleuze and History. Edinburgh University Press, 2009.

"Gilles Deleuze." With Dan Smith. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/deleuze/. Put online May 2008.

“Affect, Agency, and Responsibility: The Act of Killing in the Age of Cyborgs.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 7.2 (2008): 405-413.

"Twentieth Century Continental Political Philosophy." Co-author, with David Ingram. In Edinburgh Companion to the Twentieth Century Philosophies. Ed. Constantin Boundas. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

"Entre la géophilosophie et la physiologie politique." In Actes du colloque "Deleuze, Guattari et le politique" - Paris 8 Janvier 2005. Ed. Manola Antonioli and Pierre-Antoine Chardel. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2006.

“Deleuze, Guattari, and Emergence,” Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory, 29.2 (July 2006): 19-39.

"Katrina," Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy / Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale, 10.1 (Spring 2006): 363-381.
Reprinted in Deleuze/ Guattari and Ecology, ed. Bernd Herzogenrath. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

“Earth,” “Fascism,” “Organism,” in The Deleuze Dictionary, ed. Adrian Parr. Edinburgh University Press, 2005.
Additional entries: “State and geography” and “Creative transformation and biology,” 2nd edition, 2010.

“Love,” in Between Deleuze and Derrida, ed. Paul Patton and John Protevi. Continuum, 2003: 183-194.

“The Organism as the Judgment of God: Aristotle, Kant and Deleuze on Nature (that is, on Biology, Theology and Politics),” in Deleuze and Religion, ed. Mary Bryden. Routledge, 2001: 30-41.

"‘A Problem of Pure Matter’: Deleuze and Guattari's Treatment of Fascist Nihilism in A Thousand Plateaus," in Nihilism Now!: "Monsters of Energy", ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson and Diane Morgan. Macmillan, 2000: 167-188.

"Martin Heidegger" and several smaller articles related to Heidegger’s philosophy. In Dictionary of Existentialism, ed. Haim Gordon. Greenwood Press, 1999.

“Inventio and the Unsurpassable Metaphor: Ricoeur’s Treatment of Augustine’s Time Meditation,” Philosophy Today, 43.1 (Spring 1999): 86-94.

"The 'Sense' of 'Sight': Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty on the Meaning of Bodily and Existential Sight," Research in Phenomenology, 28 (1998): 211-23.

"Egyptian Priests and German Professors: On the Alleged Difficulty of Philosophy," Philosophy Today, 41.1 (Spring 1997): 181-88.

"Given Time and the Gift of Life," Man and World, 30.1 (Jan 1997): 65-82.

"Derrida's Political Physics," in Phenomenology, Interpretation, and Community, ed. Lenore Langsdorf and Stephen H. Watson (Albany: SUNY Press, 1996): 221-235.

"Violence and Authority in Kant," Epoché, 2 (1994): 65-89

"Avoiding a Superficial Reading: Derrida's Reading of 'The Anaximander Fragment,'" Philosophy Today, 38.1 (Spring 1994): 88-97

"Jacques Derrida," Encyclopedia of Time, ed. Samuel Macey (NY: Garland Press, 1994): 161-62

"Derrida and Hegel: Différance and Unterschied," International Studies in Philosophy, 25.3 (1993): 59-74
Reprinted in Jacques Derrida (4 volumes), eds. Christopher Norris and David Roden. Volume 1: Metaphysics. London: Sage, 2002.

"The Economy of Exteriority in Derrida's Speech and Phenomena," Man and World, 26.4 (October 1993): 373-388

"Repeating the Parricide: Levinas and the Question of Clos¬ure," Journal of the British Society for Phen¬omen¬ology, 23.1 (January 1992): 21-32
Reprinted in Emmanuel Levinas: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (4 volumes) ed. Claire Elise Katz. Volume 4. New York: Routledge, 2005.

"The Sinnsfrage and the Seinsfrage," Philosophy Today, 34.4 (December 1990): 321-333

"The Stilling of the Aufhebung: Streit in the 'Origin of the Work of Art,'" Heideg¬ger Studies, 6 (1990): 67-83

"Politics without Why: Acting at the End of Philosophy," Research in Phenomenology, 19 (1989): 291-298. [Review article.]

 

Translations

On Becoming Aware, by Nathalie Depraz, Francisco Varela, and Pierre Vermeersch. Philadelphia: John Benjamin, 2003. (Introduction and Part I only.) [From French.]

"Sein und Zeit: A 'Translation' of the Nicomachean Ethics?" by Franco Volpi, in Reading Heidegger From the Start: New Essays in his Earliest Thought, ed. Theodore Kisiel and John van Buren (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994) [From German]

"Categorial Intuition in Husserl and Heid¬egger," by Jiro Wata¬nabe, in Reading Heidegger, ed. John Sallis (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992) [From German]

"Per mortem ad vitam," "Förster," "Cüppers," "Jörgensen," "Zur philosophischen Orientierung für Akademiker," and "Religionspsychologie und Unterbewusstsein," by Martin Heidegger [from Der Akademiker, 1910-1913]. Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 14.2-15.1 (1991): 486-519. [From German]